AWFUL ORDEAL.
BRITISH SEAMEN.
Adrift In Open Boat For
Four Days. SHIPPING LOSSES LAST WEEK. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) LON DON, April 16. The horrible sufferings of the crew of the British steamer Stancliffc were revealed when a battered ship's lifeboat was swept up on the rock-bound Shetland Coast. Rescuers found eight men dead, lying in the bottom of the boat, an Arab seaman dying and 15 men in a pitiful state of exhaustion. m They had been adrift for nearly four days and could scarcely talk, but said that a U-boat had torpedoed the Stancliffe last Friday.
A second lifeboat containing the remaining 15 of the crew was smashed to pieces immediately it was launched. The occupants are believed to have been drowned.
The trawler Sansonnet has been lost and the 10 men of the crcw drowned.
Shipping losses as a result of enemy action during the week ended April 14 were:—Two Swedish and one each of British, Greek, Dutch and Norwegian.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 91, 17 April 1940, Page 7
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