TORPEDOED & SUNK
ANOTHER ALLIED MERCHANT SHIP OFF AUSTRALIAN COAST. ALL MEMBERS OF CREW RESCUED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) SYDNEY, February 12. Another Allied merchant vessel, the second reported within a week, has been torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Australia. All the members of the crew have been rescued. The vessel was taken in tow, but finally had to be abandoned when she began to sink. No one aboard saw the attacking submarine, which is believed to have fired its torpedoes without surfacing. Two separate attacks were made. The crew made desperate attempts to save the ship. But after the second attack some jumped overboard while others took to the lifeboats. Some of those who jumped into the water were slightly burned by flaming oil, which poured out of the stricken vessel. When the rescue ship arrived it was thought there might be a chance of salvaging the torpedoed vessel. But this faded when the last watertight bulkhead gave away and the ship sank rapidly.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1943, Page 2
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