BRITISH SUBMARINES
TWO REPORTED OVERDUE CONSIDERED BY ADMIRALTY .TO BE LOST. TWO TRAWLERS SUNK WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE. ■ By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) LONDON, April 30 ; The Admiralty announces that* the submarines Tarpon, under Lieutenant-Commander H. J. Caldwell, and the Sterlet, under Lieu-tenant-Commander G. H. S. Haward, are now considerably overdue, and must be considered to have been lost. His Majesty's trawlers Bradman, Lieutenant A. A. F. Talbot and Capesiretoko, Lieutenant A. N. Blundell were damaged by bombs and subsequently sank. There was no loss of life reported. TOTAL LOSSES SEVEN SINCE BEGINNING OF WAR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, April 30. The announcement of the presumed loss of the submarines Tarpon and Sterlet, vessels of 1095 tons and G7O tons respectively, brings the total of Britain’s submarines losses since the beginning of the war. to seven.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 5
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