HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS
TORPEDOED CREW. PITIFUL STORY. Received April 17. 10.50 a.m. LONDON, April 16. The horrible sufferings of the crew of the steamer Stanch (I'e were revealed when a battered ship’s lifeboat was swept up on the roekbound Shetland coast. The rescuers found eight men dead, lying in the bottom of the boat, an Arab seaman dying, and fifteen men in a pitiful state of exhaustion. They had been adrift for nearly four days. They could scarcely talk, hut said a U-boat torpedoed the Stancliffe on April 12. A second lifeboat containing the remaining fifteen members of the crow was smashed to pieces immediately it was launched. The occupants are believed to have been drowned. T he trawler Sansonnct has been lost, ten of the crew being drowned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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128HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 118, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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