SHIPPING LOSSES
THREE VESSELS TORPEDOED NEAR AZORES. SURVIVORS TAKEN TO LISBON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LISBON, April 11. Eighty-eight British survivors and 18 foreigners were landed from the Roxburgh Castle, California Star and Thorshov, which were torpedoed near the Azores. The survivors were afloat for fifteen days. The Portuguese ship Sergapinto. which picked up the survivors, carried 135 women and children returning to Britain from the United States and Canada.
confident that, under your leadership, the task of driving the enemy forces from their last stronghold on the continent of Africa will be successfully accomplished.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 4
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