BRITISH SHIP LOST
AFTER STRIKING REEF IN SULU SEA. U.S. DESTROYER RESCUES PASSENGERS & CREW. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MANILA,- May 9. The United States destroyer Pope sent a wireless message today stating that she had rescued 66 passengers and members of the crew of the British steamer Lindenbank, on passage from Fremantle to Shanghai. The Lindenbank struck the Arena Reef in, the middle of the Sulu Sea, and sank in 600 fathoms.
The Lindenbank vias a cargo steamer of 5057 tons gross register, built at Belfast in 1930, and owned by the Bank Line Limited (A. Weir and Co.), of London. The Lindenbank has made several voyages from Nauru Island to New Zealand with cargoes of phosphates. She left Nauru Island on March 18 with a cargo of phosphates for West Australian ports. She arrived at Fremantle on April 9, and after discharging there, loaded a full cargo of 7500 tons of wheat for Shanghai. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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154BRITISH SHIP LOST Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 7
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