CREW OF TWENTY FEARED LOST
FINNISH STEAMER WRECKED IN HEAVY SEAS (Received January 21, 5.5 p.m.) OSLO, January 20. It is feared that the crew of 20 of the Finnish , steamer Savonia, which grounded near Kristiansand, has perished. Fishermen found the wreck of the ship, which was almost destroyed. There was no sign of any survivors. Heavy seas continue. The Savonia sent out an SOS at 2 a.m., after which she was silent. ALL HANDS DROWNED GERMAN EXPERIMENTAL SHIP. SINKS BERLIN, January 20. While trying to rescue the crews of two distressed ships in a raging snowstorm in the Baltic Sea, the German naval experimental ship Welle sank. The commander and the whole crew of 25 were drowned. CREW OF TRYM RESCUED OSLO, January 20. Norwegian liner Venus was successful in rescuing the crew of 19 from the sinking Norwegian steamer Trym in the North Sea.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21997, 22 January 1937, Page 11
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