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DUTCH LINER TORPEDOED 900 PEOPLE ON BOARD TRANSFER TO RESCUE ships (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 5 It is announced that the ship which was torpedoed in the Atlantic on the night of August 30 when she was carrying British children to Canada under the evacuation scheme was the Dutch liner Volendam, of 15,434 tons, owned by the Holland-America line. The liner did not sink and has been salvaged. She was towed into a British port on Wednesday. There were 900 on board the Volendam when she was torpedoed, including the 320 children who were being evacuated to Canada under the Overseas Reception Scheme. Some' time after the liner was struck and after the first lifeboats had been lowered it appeared that she might remain afloat. Later, however, another hold started to fill and the order was given to abandon ship. All the children and the others on board the liner were safely trans ferred to rescue ships, with the exception of the purser, who lost his life when he slipped as he was about ' to enter a lifeboat. The salvaging of the liner represents another triumph in addition to the rescue of the children.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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199CHILDREN SAVED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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