LONG-RANGE ATTACK
TORPEDOING OF THE ACCRA
U-BOAT BELIEVED SUNK
COOL GALLANTRY OF CREW.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 7.
| It is believed that the U-boat which I sank the British liner Accra off the | west coast of Eire fired a cluster of torpedoes from long range. No one saw the submarine, though it is believed that the naval escort later sank one. The torpedo struck the Accra amidships and blew engineers along the propeller tunnel. They crawled back and helped in lowering the lifeboats. One of the stewards, who was serving lunch when the torpedo exploded, has now survived three torpedoings. Captain John Joseph Smith said that the crew might have been queueing up the passengers for a cinema show, so coolly did they superintend the lowering of the lifeboats.
Captain ‘•Potato" Jones, who became famous running the blockade during the war in Spain, commanded one of the rescue ships. Smoke screens protected survivors during the rescue work.
Five nurses and two stewardesses were the only women aboard. All of them survived.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 5
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