LOSSES AT SEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 5

LOSSES AT SEA

U-BOAT AND MINE VICTIMS ATTACK ON TRAWLING FLEET. BRITISH MINE-SWEEPER SUNK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 24. The Admiralty has announced that the minesweeper Aragonite was damaged by a mine close to the coast. Four ratings were seriously injured. Tugs took off all the crew and attempted to rush the minesweeper to the beach, but she sank in shallow water. The Sulby, which was sunk by a Üboat was a member of a trawling fleet off the Scottish coast on November 21. When the submarine came to the surface the fishermen hauled in their nets and made off at full speed, but the submarine sank the Sulby and also the Seasweeper and the Delphine. All the crews except five from the Sulby were saved. The submarine pursued the fleet,, firing shells, but none of the vessels were hit. The steamer Lowland (974 tons) was sunk in the North Sea. Nine of the crew are missing. Six who were rescued included the captain, who died from injuries. The Copenhagen correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” reports that the Dutch motor-vessel Tegri (600 tons), which left Sweden on October 1, loaded with Dynamite, has not been heard of since. It carried a crew of nine. A British ship picked up seven of the 11 missing members of the crew of the Arlington Court, which was sunk by a submarine. SHIP SUNK BY MINE WHILE ANCHORED OFF COAST. ALL MEMBERS OF CREW RESCUED. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. The steamer Mangalore was sunk by a mine while anchored off the East Coast. All 77 members of her crew were rescued. The explosion occurred near the engine room and some members of the crew were thrown overboard. DUTCH STEAMER SUNK IN THE ATLANTIC BY U-BOAT. FIVE SURVIVORS PICKED UP. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 24. Five survivors of the Dutch steamer Sliedrecht, sunk by a submarine, landed on the North-West coast. They spent 7i days in an open boat before they were picked up by a trawler. - The submarine commander examined the ship’s papers and ignored assurances that it was a neutral vessel, bound for a neutral port. The crew were ordered into boats, after which the ship was sunk. The crew totalled thirty-one and there is no news of the remainder. The survivors said ’ the ship was stopped in the Atlantic and the U-boat commander refused to take on the crew and transfer them to another vessel.