SIX TRAWLERS LOST.
TRONDHEIM EVACUATION. Received Mav 8, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, May 8. The Admiralty state that six naval trawlers were lost in the Trondheim evacuation, namely, the Warwickshire (466 tons), Cape Chelyuskin (494 tons), Jardine (452 tons), Saint Goran (564 tons), Gaul (531 tons) and Aston Villa. Two sank after air attacks and four were so dqiliaged as the result of the air attack’ that' it was not thought advisable for- them to attempt the North Sea ’crossing and they were sunk by our forces. The casualties were slight.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9
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90SIX TRAWLERS LOST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 136, 9 May 1940, Page 9
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