COWARDLY ATTACK
ON FERRY STEAMER MADE BY GERMAN PLANE. PASSENGER AND SEAMAN KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, August 20. Two Irishmen —a passenger and a seaman—were killed when a German plane bombed and. machine-gunned the Great Western Railway steamer Saint Patrick off the Irish coast on Saturday. There were 70 passengers, mostly women and children, from South Wales. When the vessel was nearing the Irish coast the plane swooped down from a great height and dropped two bombs, which fell 50 yards from the ship, rocking it. The plane then banked and turned and. when it was almost alongside the ship, the German rear gunner swept the port deck with machine-gun fire. The plane then disappeared.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 5
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