SUNK BY RAIDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 5

SUNK BY RAIDER

SHIP OWNED BY U.S.A. GOYERNMENT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN WASHINGTON. STILL NO NEWS OF CREW. I By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 22. The State Department announced that the United States Governmentowned ship Pink Star was sunk on September 19 by an unidentified raider in latitude 61 degrees 36 minutes north, longitude 35 degrees, 7 minutes west, near where the Sessa was sunk on August 19. She was flying the Panamanian flag. The Pink Star, formerly the Danish ship Lundby, was of 6580 tons. She was taken over by the Maritime Commission on July 12 and subsequently registered at Panama and chartered to the United States Lines. So far there are no details of the fate of the crew of 34. which included six British and eight Canadians. This is the first American vessel sunk since President Roosevelt’s shoot-cn-sight orders. It is stated that the vessel had general cargo for the United Kingdom, via Iceland. She sailed from New York on September 3. The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, told the Press that no shooting had been reported since Mr Roosevelt’s freedom of the seas speech. He said there was no apparent foundation for reports that a German raider had been sunk in the Pacific.'