U-BOAT VICTIM
MERCHANTMAN TORPEDOED IN ATLANTIC MANY MEMBERS OF CREW DROWNED. SURVIVORS RESCUED. By Tel egraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON. December 8. A merchantman, the Nova Scotia, was torpedoed in the Atlantic. Forty-three of the crew are, missing and 44 landed at English ports. The vessel sank in eight minutes, and many of the crew were sucked under when the ship submerged. The survivors were adrift for three hours before being rescued.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 5
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75U-BOAT VICTIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 5
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