SUNK IN SINGAPORE
BRITISH INDIA LINER SUPPOSED MINE EXPLOSION. RATHER PECULIAR MISHAP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SINGAPORE, November 13. The British India liner Sirdhana sank within 15 minutes in Singapore harbour this morning following an explosion believed to have been from a mine. If a mine was the cause of the explosion this is the second ship to have been lost at Singapore from the same cause. Some weeks ago it was reported that a steamer had failed to act on signals from the harbour entrance instructing it to avoid the protective minefield and consequently had come to grief. The Sirdhana was a twin-screw passenger vessel of 7745 tons and was built in 1925. . ASIATICS DROWNED. (Received This Dav. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK. November 13. The Associated Press of America's Singapore correspondent states, in connection with the sinking of the British India liner Sirdhana on the waterfront on Saturday that all those drowned or missing, were Asiatics.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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