ATTACKS ON SHIPPING
NUMBER OF SEAMEN KILLED OR MISSING U-BOAT SHELLS TRAWLER NORWEGIAN SHIP TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. An explosion sank the steamer Boxhill in the North Sea. Twelve members of the crew and a body were landed on the North-East Coast. Nineteen, it is feared, perished. A U-boat shelled and sank the trawler Barbara Robertson, off the north of Scotland. One deckhand was killed. The remainder of the crew took to a lifeboat and were afloat twelve hours before warships picked them up, after a seaplane had incidated their whereabouts. A mine damaged the tanker San Delfino, which was beached. The crew of forty-one was landed. The Norwegian cargo steamer Luna was torpedoed without warning in the North Sea. The Columbia took all seventeen of the crew to Kopervik.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 5
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