SEA HEROES
MEN WHO BROUGHT HOME THE SAN DEMETRIO FIRE ON TANKER FOUGHT IN GALE. SHIP & CARGO TAKEN INTO PORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 21. The San Demetrio is now in port discharging gasolene. After defying a surface raider, fire, a midnight gale, and the loss of navigating instruments, she brought home 11,000 of 11,200 tons of gasolene and 39 of her crew of 42. An officer said: “The pocket battleship badly hit and set on fire the San Demetrio. We took to the boats and a gale came up at midnight. We sighted a tanker at 5 a.m. and when we approached found it was our ship, but it was too dangerous to board her. We sighted her again after daybreak and boarded her, although she was whitehot amidships and still burning aft. The crew worked with buckets, putting out the fires and the engineers worked in the flooded engine room and got up steam. We sailed without a compass, being only sure that we would hit land somewhere between Narvik and Gibraltar.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 6
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180SEA HEROES Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1940, Page 6
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