NAVAL ACHIEVEMENT
BURNING ENEMY SHIP SALVAGED. CANADIAN DESTROYER’S PART. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 27. The latest addition to Canada’s destroyer flotilla, the Assiniboine, while on patrol with a British warship in the Caribbean Sea, sighted the German steamer Hannover. The German vessel had been set on fire by the time the two ships reached it and the problem of keeping her afloat was solved by the larger waship taking the captured vbssel in tow while the Assiniboine, keeping to windward, ran alongside with a battery of hoses. In five days this strange convoy was brought through plunging seas to Kingston (Jamaica).
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1940, Page 5
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107NAVAL ACHIEVEMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1940, Page 5
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