DAMAGE TO RAIDER
1 ACTION WITH CARNARVON ’ CASTLE. ; | • GERMAN SHIP HIT WITH TEN SALVOES. ; ■ ’l-c-.s A-. CAPE TOWN, January 15. Belated o.’ih'ial details concerning the action between the armed mer!chant cruiser Carnarvon Castle <20.000 j tons' and a fast.' heavily-armed Geri man raider disguised as a merchant ship m the Southt Atlantic early in December show that the raider scored 38 | direct hits on the Carnarvon Castle. : Four were on the waterline, but the i others caused only superficial damage. Six of the crew of the British ship i were killed and 31 injured. j Tim aciitin lasted fit) minutes. The 'Cm oarvcn Castle tired almgethvr about Ji.'ii ■•helK sc wing direct hits on the r.s.der with admit. 10 salvoes, Olllcers land men arc unanimous that ihc raider 11'Revived mure puniihmefit than st i gave
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410117.2.78
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1941, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135DAMAGE TO RAIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1941, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in