U-BOAT VICTIMS
BOAT REACHES SHETLANDS FILLED WITH DEAD AND DYING MEN. TRAWLER LOST WITH CREW OF TEN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. April 16. Horrible sufferings by the crew of the steamer Stancliffe were revealed when a battered ship's lifeboat was swept up on the rockbound Shetland Coast. Rescuers found eight men dead lying in the bottom of the boat, an Arab seaman dying and 15 men in a pitiful state of exhaustion. They had been adrift for nearly four days and could scarcely talk, but said a U-boat torpedoed the Stancliffe on April 12. A second lifeboat containing the remaining 15 members of the crew was smashed to pieces immediately it was launched. The occupants are believed to have been drowned. The trawler Sansonnet has been lost, and her crew of 10 drowned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 5
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139U-BOAT VICTIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1940, Page 5
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