TOWED TO PORT
DISABLED BRITISH STEAMER. APPROACHED BY A U-BOAT. THREE FATALITIES ON BOARD. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) * LISBON, February 11. The British steamer Oregon has arrived here in tow. She reports that she experienced boiler trouble off Capo Finisterre, and sent out an SOS. 'She drifted three days, when .a U-boat approached, hut did not fire,-presumably because it was short of ammunition, and left the Oregon to her fate. Next day a tug made (contact, hut the hawser snapped, the, second officer and two seamen being killed and another seriously injured.
The Oregon was previously reported torpedoed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 104, 12 February 1940, Page 5
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