SUBMARINE LOST.
Pieceived' May 13. 11.5 a.in. LONDON, May 12. The Secretary to the Admiralty announces : His Majesty’s submarine Seal is overdue and must bo presumed to be lost. Foreign reports suggest that some of her crew may be prisoners of war. The Seal was a vessel of 1520 tons displacement and her .normal complement. was 55. She was completed last year. The Seal is the seventh British submarine to be lost by enemy action. One Other, the Oxley, was destroyed by an accidental explosion in the early days of the war. The Admiralty announces that the casualties on the destroyer Afridi, which was sunk in the North Sea while convoying transports. were 84, consisting of one officer and 50 ratings missing and believed dead and 33 ratings wounded. Casualties on the trawler Dunoon were 33 consisting of three officers and 25 ratings missing and believed killed and five ratings wounded. The Admiralty announces that mines may be laid without further warning in the vicinity of the Norwegian const to the eastward of a line running due north from a point about forty miles south-west of Bergen to Stadlandet and then north-east to a point sixty miles north-west of Namsos, states the British Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 8
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205SUBMARINE LOST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 140, 14 May 1940, Page 8
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