STEAMER KEYNES
SUNK BY NAZI PLANES IN NORTH SEA.
WIRELESS OPERATOR INJURED.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received This Day. 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 12.
Nazi planes bombed and sank the steamer Keynes in the North Sea on Thursday. The crew has been landed. Only the wireless operator was injured, although the planes attacked twice, one securing five direct hits.
ANOTHER VICTIM MEMBERS OF CREW RESCUED. (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 12. The steamer Granta was mined and sunk off the East Coast. Another vessel rescued the crew. VESSEL TOWED IN. AFTER ATTACK BY TWO BOMBERS (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. January 12. Two German planes bombed and machine-gunned the steamer Pitwines off the Yorkshire coast. The crew took to a boat. The captain later reported that a fire aboard the vessel had been quelled and asked for the assistance of a tug, which took the Pitwines in tow. All members of the crew are safe, despite fifty bombs that were dropped. TRAWLER SUNK. (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 12. A German bomber sank the trawler Croxton on Thursday. Nine members of the crew drifted in an open boat for 24 hours before they landed on the east coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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