ANOTHER SHIP MINED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 45, 2 December 1939, Page 5

ANOTHER SHIP MINED.

SUBMARINE SINKS STEAMER.

SHELLED' FOR OVER) TWO HOURS.

LONDON, November 30

According to Agency messages the British collier Sheaf Crest Was sunk by a mine in the North Sea this morning. Fifteen were seriously injured. The survivors were picked up by a warship, which is taking them to an East Coast port, and 15 others have been landed by lifeboat. After missing with torpedoes a German U-boat shelled the British steamer Uskmouth for two hours and a-half until she burst into flames and sank off the Spanish coast on Saturday night. Twenty-two of the crew of 25 got away in a lifeboat. After sailing for .25. hours they were picked-up by -an Italian motor-vessel and landed at a south-east coast port to-day. A message from Amsterdam says that the Bevenvijk (2948) wirelessed an S:O.S. from the Baltic. It is feared that she has boon mined. Authoritative quarters in London give figures fo British merchant shipping losses in the months of September and October as 13,000 and 82,000 tons gross for the first 19 days of November,, making a total gross tonnage loss of 252,000 since the war began. In the same period 128,000 tons became available through new vessels being put into service, and a further 70,000 tons through captures, leaving a net loss of 54,000 tons gross.' British ships entering British ports, expressed in tons, were:—• September, 4,509,000; October, 4,384,000; first 20 days of November, 3,214,000.. The , French evening comnvmiquo states: “One of our torpedo-boats successfully attacked an enemy submarine.”—British Official Wireless. " '