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TWO SWEDISH DESTROYERS ANOTHER BADLY DAMAGED MISHAP WITH TORPEDO. THIRTY-ONE KILLED & ELEVEN INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, September 17. A succession of explosions sank two Swedish destroyers and seriously damaged another at an anchorage south of Stockholm. The destroyers were Goteborg, Klashorn and Klassugla. Following on the explosions, which the “Aftonbladet” states were caused by a mishap with a torpedo, fires developed and ammunition exploded on all three ships. It is officially stated that 31 men were killed and eleven injured. The rescuers were hampered by flaming oil.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6
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96SUNK AT ANCHOR Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1941, Page 6
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