TWO BRITISH CRUISERS
Sunk by Japanese Air Action in Bay of Bengal DORSETSHIRE AND CORNWALL I LONDON, April 9. It was announced by the Admiralty this afternoon that two British cruisers, the Dorsetshire and the Cornwall, had been sunk in the Indian Ocean by Japanese air action. - It is known that there were more than 1,100 survivors from the two British ships. The commanding officers of both cruisers were among those saved. • The Dorsetshire and Cornwall were both ships of 10,000 tons, completed in 1929. It was a torpedo from the Dorsetshire that sank the German battleship Bismarck. Between 400 and 500 survivors from merchant ships sunk by the Japanese in the Bay of Bengal have arrived in India.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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