TRAWLERS SUNK.
BY ENEMY 'PLANES. One Goes Down With Loss Of All Hands. LIGHTSHIP ALSO ATTACKED. United Press Association.-—Copyright. (Keceived 11.30 a.m.) LOMDON, January 15. Watchers from a lightship, who reached the east coast, described how a German 'plane bombed and machinegunned a homeward-bound trawler, sinking her with the loss of all hands. The ship's identity cannot he ascertained, pending a roll call of trawlers. The 'plane attacked tlie lightship, but a lifeboat rescued the crew. The master and eight of the crew of the trawler William Ivery landed at a Scottish port after being the object of a bomb attack in the Morth Sea, says another message. When survivors of the British steamer Grantu (:271i> tons), which struck a mine last week, were landed on the north-east coast, it was learned that 10 of the crew were missing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1940, Page 7
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