THE SUBMARINE WAR.
3 NORWEGIAN BARQUE TORPEDOED. J (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, October 30. The Norwegian barque Stifinder was torpedoed 1300 miles off tho American coast. Eight persona perished. Ten survivors of the Stifinder were adrift for fifteen days. Their sufferings were awful, as they had practically j. no food or water. The Stifinder was a steel barque, of 1 1746 tons, built in 1893 at Glasgow, by R. Duncan and Co., for Atkies, Christiansand, Norway. CREW ESCAPE IN BOATS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Afflociation.) (Received October 81st. 8.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 30. 0 Tho freighted Stifinder was en route from New York to when she was stopped in mid-Atlantic by U-boats. The crew sank the vessel with bombs and escaped in the boats. One boatload is missing. Th< remainder were picked up by an American patrol boat. ;e 1
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16358, 1 November 1918, Page 7
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