LOSSES AT SEA
TWO NAVAL TRAWLERS SUNK
BY BOMBS NORWEGIANS BAG TWO NAZI SHIPS. FOUR ANGLO-ALLIED VESSELS DESTROYED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 28.
The Admiralty has announced that his Majesty’s trawlers Melbourne and Cape Passaro have been sunk by bombs. Four ratings from the Cape Passaro were killed but there were no Melbourne casualties.
The Norwegians sank the German ships Rosario and Kattegat, which is a tanker, making the German losses to May 20 830.000 tons. The Germans, in the week to May 20, destroyed 46.301 tons, including four AngloAllied ships totalling 30,181 tons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1940, Page 5
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