MURDEROUS ATTACK
ON BRITISH FISHING TRAWLER CLOSE TO NORWEGIAN WATERS. TWO MEMBERS OF CREW DEAD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) OSLO, December 20. A German warplane bombed and sank the British trawler Trinity, which was fishing close to Norwegian territorial waters. A Danish fishing boat found the survivors clinging to planks. They said the Trinity was blown to pieces and the crew machine-gunned as they were struggling in the water. Bombs killed none of the men, but one was drowned and another died of exhaustion after the rescue.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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91MURDEROUS ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 7
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