ON THE HIGH SEAS. SMALL BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.
LONDON, July 26
The steamer Firth, bound from France to the Firth of Forth, was torpedoed in the North Son. Six .of her crew landed at Lowcstoft. and it is .-reported that four others were killed by the explosion.
The Admiralty announces that the trawler Briton was sunk by a submarine. Her skipper was killed, and five of her crew are reported drowned. Two others are in hospital at Lowestoft.
The Grimsby trawler Persens was sunk by a mine. Three of her orew were picked up dead.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8202, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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