STILL AFLOAT
TUG TO RESCUE OF FOOD SHIP (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. A powerful rescue tug is speeding seaward from St. Nazaire to try and save the food-carrying American ship American Farmer after air reconnaissance from Plymouth showed that she is still afloat-after a collision yesterday.
It was stated yesterday that the American Farmer had sunk after a midnight collision with another American ship, William J. Riddle, and that 550 tons of wheat and other food had been lost.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 250, 3 August 1946, Page 5
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