SALUTE TO ENSIGN
LAST SEEN OF CAPTAIN OF COURAGEOUS FINAL DEATH-ROLL FIGURES. ADMIRALTY ANNOUNCEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, September 20. The Admiralty announces that 72 officers and 610 ratings were saved from the air-craft-carrier 11.M.5. Courage-, ous, which was sunk by a Nazi submarine on Sunday evening. The. Admiralty adds thal if deeply regrets this must be regarded as the final list. This means that 18 officers and 560 ratings have been lost. A noble epitaph of Captain Makeig Jones is supplied by William Furze, A. 8., one of the survivors, who said: “The last I saw of the skipper he was saluting the Ensign." A Daventry report states that three more survivors from the Courageous have been reported, making a total of 690 saved from the 1202 officers and ratings aboard. ; In a statement in the House of-Com-mons. Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, sa'id the Courageous was accompanied by a full quota of destroyers, and in answer to a question said there was still no reason to doubt the Admiralty method of coping with submarine attacks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 7
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181SALUTE TO ENSIGN Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 7
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