GERMAN SHIP
SUNK BY AXIS U=BOAT BRITISH ADMIRALTY REPORT. LAST MESSAGE HEARD FROM NEAR AZORES. LONDON, February 17. A German ship of 5,000 tons has been sunk by an Axis submarine. It is not known whether the submarine was German or Italian. The sinking is disclosed in an Admiralty report that on January 31 an S.O.S. was received from a ship giving her position as 450 miles north of the Azores and her name as the Brittany. It was at once concluded that the sinking ship must be an enemy vessel, as the Brittany was not in those waters. In a later message the ship gave her name as that of a German vessel last heard of in Yokohama in August, 1941. The message stated that she was on fire and sinking. The locality was searched and a patch of oil three miles wide was found on the water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 3
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149GERMAN SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1942, Page 3
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