RED CROSS LINER
TORPEDOED BY NAZIS WITH LOSS OF 122 LIVES. INCLUDING ELEVEN AMERICAN AVIATORS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! NEW YORK, May 8. Shipping circles disclose that the Red Cross liner Nerissa was the ship which yesterday was reported to have been sunk with the loss of 122 lives, including 11 American aviators. The Nerissa was torpedoed on the night of April 4. 1000 miles from a Canadian port. The earlier message stated that the Canadian Government had announced that 11 United States pilots who were engaged to fly American bombers to Britain lost their lives, together with 111 other persons, in the recent sinking of a steamer by the enemy in the Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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113RED CROSS LINER Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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