SERVICE AT SEA
IN MEMORY OF THETIS VICTIMS ATTENDED BY WEEPING RELATIVES. MANY UNABLE TO FACE ORDEAL. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, June 7. With the decks piled high with flowers and crowded with weeping relatives, the minesweeper Hebe, accompanied by the minesweeper Seagull, also laden with flowers, put to sea for a memorial service at the spot where the submarine Thetis sank. Many relatives, unable to face the poignant ordeal, remained ashore and attended church services. Two thousand of Cammell Laird's employees attended'a service at Birkenhead. The service aboard the Hebe was conducted by a naval chaplain before 70 relatives of the naval men and technicians lost in the Thetis. Also on the scene were the destroyers Codrington and Basilisk and the submarine Cachalot. ,The Last Post and Reveille and a salute of guns were features of the service. Other services were held in Portsmouth. Chatham, Devonport and Barrow.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 6
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149SERVICE AT SEA Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 6
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