Ship Torpedoed But Saved by Navy Gunners
Received Monday, 8.15 p.m. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. The U.S. Navy announced that a. United States merchantman was recently torpedoed in the Caribbean but Navy gunners drove off the attacking submarine and saved their vessel. The torpedo explosion killed two seamen but failed to sink the ship. Twelve hours later a Canadian naval vessel appeared and towed the damaged ship to port. The Navy also revealed the loss of a medium-sized British merchantman through submarine action In the Caribbean in the middle of August. The annual meeting yesterday of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Dairy Union voted £lO to the Jubilee Institute for the Blind.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 208, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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