MERCHANT CRUISER
TORPEDOED IN NORTH ATLANTIC THIRTY MEMBERS OF CREW MISSING. SURVIVORS LANDED IN BRITAIN. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 1. Aii Admiralty coiinnunique announced that the armed merchant cruiser TI.AI.S. Dunvegan Castle (15,007 tons), commanded by Captain 11. Ardill, li.X.. was torpedoed and subsequently sank. British warships landed 250 survivors.
The Dunvegan Castle was sunk in the North Atlantic. Thirty men are reported to be missing. Others spent the night in lifeboats before two warships picked them up. A flying-boat, which had sighted the blazing vessel, guided the warships to the survivors. A survivor said the Dunvegan Castle shelled the submarine which torpedoed it, but it was impossible to say whether hits were scored.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 5
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