THE WAR AT SEA
IA U, VH’.HSELS SUN K BRITISH Si 111 R OVERDUE NEW GERMAN ’ WARNING ATTACKS BY AIRCRAFT LONDON, Nov. 15. The Admiralty announces that the four men who were reported to ho missing from the destroyer, the sinking of which was reported yesterday, are safe. Another missing man was found seriously injured. The steamer Newton Beech, with a crew of 40, is -three weeks overdue at Newcastle. The last message reported all well. The steamer Georgois collided, with a, partially submerged wreck on the north-east coast. Twenty-two members of the crew escaped in a life-boat. Nine men, including the skipper, were drowned when the steamer Woodtown was blown up by an explosion and sank within a minute, leaving only a great column of smoke. Thirteen men were aboard. The survivors were picked up by a coastal steamer. A message, from Kaunas, Lithuania, states that the cargo steamers Ranevt?ssVs and! Nida were sunk in uhe Baltic near the Estonian coast. The Nida was carrying British coal.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 260, 17 November 1939, Page 1
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168THE WAR AT SEA Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 260, 17 November 1939, Page 1
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