HOSPITAL SHIP.
Sunk By German Bombers In
Mediterranean
LIFEBOATS MACHINE GUNNED
LONDON". April 1-!
The -inking <>t* the Greek hospital ship Attiki by iJernan bomber- lia.been revealed. Altogether '2S personlost their live-, including the captain, two doctors and a nurse.
Although the captain -bjiiabed tho ■approaching aircraft that the Attiki wn< a hospital ship, the German- i-.une on. dropped their bombs and then came down tn 100 ft. an.l machiind-jrunncd tiie lifeboats. One of the -urvixors. a im:-.- v. Im was in the water fur eight 1i• • 11: ~. -,iid the I!ed ( ro-s markings mi ;:ie -hip were brilliantly illuminated. lA<-n -o the German- inaebine-gunned tin- lit'.' beats, the ladder- on the -hip'- -i. 1•• .md people ill the water. Smi:e \ii-t :>njnni]>ed fri'in the lifeboat,. i i,: ■. -; : e -ea. A message from Athen- -,n - burning re-entment i- felt thr■ iiili..i:t (. . eat the outrage. The Attiki \\.t- a -hip t.,n-. and was built in l.la-gow in l-'.ni. si..Jinfl lately been owned bv tiie 1 {<• 1 11i. Mediterranean Line- nnd wa- registered at I'iracn--. In former period-; of her earcer she- was named Arakalia and Grenada.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 7
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184HOSPITAL SHIP. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 88, 15 April 1941, Page 7
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