MORE SHIPS SUNK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 35, 21 November 1939, Page 5

MORE SHIPS SUNK

TOTAL OF EIGHT FOR WEEK-END. LOSS OF MANY LIVES RESULTS. DANGERS TN THE; NORTH SEA. 'United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The latest list of those aboard the Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by a mine off the east coast of England, gives a total of 400, of whom yiere are 262 survivors. Eight are dead and 130 missing.

The steamer Pensilva has been sunk by enemy action. The crew were saved. The collier Torchbearer was sunk by a mine off'the east coast during the week-end. The vessel had a crew of 17, of whom 13 were saved. Six of those rescued were injured. The captain and three of the crew, who were seriously injured, were put ashore at an English port and taken to hospital. The trawler Wigmore has been lost in the North Sea. It is feared that 'the crew of 16 perished. The AVigmbre was sunk by a mine. This made a total of eight during the week-end. The Lisbon correspondent of the Associated Press states that the passenon the Netherlands liners Oranje, .Tan Pieterszoon and John De Witt, en route to Holland, were told to disembark owing to increasing danger in the North Sea.

German mines sank the Swedish steamer B. O. Borjesson (1586 tons), the British steamer Blackhill (2492 tons), the Italian steamer Grazia (5857 tons), and the Yugoslav steamer Carica Milica (6372 tons) off the east coast of England in similar circumstanced to the loss of the Dutch linei Simon Bolivar. “The Times” says five -were killed on the Grazia, which sank in a few minutes seven miles off the coast. Two ships rescued 26 members of the crew, and a search by lifeboat and aeroplane for further survivors proved fruitless. All the crew of 26 of the Carica Milica escaped. Thirteen survivors from the B. 0. Borjesson were lauded, of whom eight were injured. They had been on u raft for three hours before they were picked up by a trawler. Six are believed to have perished. Twenty-two members of the crew ot the Blackhill, including the captain, have been landed.

The Brussels correspondent of the Exchange News Agency says the weekend gales washed up 11 miles on the Belgian coast. One exploded near the breakwater at Breedene, shattering the windows of a military hospital three miles away. 7

TWENTY-0 MB FATH EiRILESS. ,• ' 1 , FAMILIES OF TRAWLER VICTIMS. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. The loss of 16 members of the crew of the trawler Wigmore is confirmed, leaving 21 children fatherless. The skipper, Walter Bore, leaves a widow and five children, and a deckhand, Clayton, six children, of whom the eldest daughter is engaged to be married and acted as mother. The dead skipper’s brother John reported the loss of the Wigmore from a northern port.