WITHOUT WARNING.
TORPEDOING OF A VESSEL. SURVIVORS’ GREAT HARDSHIPS. LONDON, November 21. Tlie survivors of the Arlington Court were' landed at an Eire portearly this morning. Most of them were injured, several being stretcher cases. They declared that the -ship was torpedoed on Thursday. \ They drifted for three and a half days in ia< lifeboat, which was damagejd in launching, necessitating continuous bailing, before they were picked up. The. Arlington Court was torpedoed without warning. The sea was rough, and both lifeboats were badly damaged in launching. Tlie remaining members of tine crew entered the ship’s jolly boat. A second torpedo wa-s fired and sank the ship, which foundered in less than half an hour. The survivors* for whom sleep was out .of the, question because of the condition of their boat and whose food ration *was restricted to three biscuits and three glasses of water daily, with a little bully beef and condensed milk, were in an exhausted condition when they landed. < | The Arlington Court was a sister ship to the Kensington Court, which was sunk in the Atlantic by a Ger-j man submarine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 37, 23 November 1939, Page 5
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185WITHOUT WARNING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 37, 23 November 1939, Page 5
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