BRITISH SUBMARINE PRESUMED LOST
Some Of Crew May Be Prisoners (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 12. The Secretary to the Admiralty announces:— “lI.M. submarine Seal is overdue and must be presumed lost. Foreign rejwrts suggest that some of her crew may be prisoners of war.” I The Seal was a vessel of 1520 tons displacement, and her normal complement was 55. She was completed last year. The Seal is the seventh British submarine lost by enemy action. One other, the Oxley, was destroyed by an accidental explosion in the early days of I ho war.] The Admiralty announces that the casualties of the lost destroyer Afridi totalled 84—one officer and 50 ratings missing, believed dead, and 33 ratings wounded. The casualties on the Dunoon were three officers and 25 ratings missing, ifclieved killed, and five fatings wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 8
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