SHIP SINKS IN MID-OCEAN
Lindenbank Strikes Reef
PASSENGERS AND CREW RESCUED
(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.)
(Received May 10, 8.30 p.m.)
MANILA, May 9,
The United States destroyer Pope sent a wireless message stating that she had rescued the 66 passengers and crew of the British steamer Lindenbank,
On a voyage from Fremantle to Shanghai the Lindenbank struck the Arena reef in the middle of the Sulu Sea, between the Philippine Islands and North Borneo, and sank in 600 fathoms.
The Lindenbank was a Bank Line motor-ship of 5051 gross tonnage, completed at Belfast in 1930 by Workman, Clark, Ltd. She was registered at Belfast, and was fitted for the carriage of vegetable and fuel oil.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 11 May 1939, Page 11
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