GOOD SHIPS GONE
LAURENTIC & PATROCLUS LOST BRITISH MERCHANT CRUISERS. NUMBERS OF SURVIVORS RESCUED. (British Ofi'icial Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.48 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. The Admiralty announces that the armed merchant cruisers Laurentic and Patroclus have been torpedoed and sunk. Reports so far received indicate that the following numbers of survivors have been rescued by his Majesty’s ships:— Laurentic, 52 officers and 316 ratings. Patroclus, 33 officers and 230 ratings. GERMAN REPORT (Received This Day. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 4. A German communique states: “The Laurentic and the Patrpculus, also the merchantman Casanare, were sunk. “The R.A.F. raided Holland and North Germany. Two houses were destroyed and two persons killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 6
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