BELIEVED SUNK IN PACIFIC
British Freighter GUNFIRE HEARD NEAR CAPE HORN
(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received March 7, 10.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 6.
The British freighter Speybank, while bound for Boston and New York from the Far East with a million-dollar cargo of rubber, tin, hemp, sugar and burlap, has been sunk by Axis warcraft. Marine circles said today that it is assumed a raider got her in the Pacific, but there were no details. Before the war the Speybank (5154 tons) was on the EnglandAustralia run.
A message from Santiago (Chile) says that the lighthouse-keeper at Dungenes Point, near Cape Horn, reported to the naval command at Punta Arenas that it had heard several cannon shots. The navy cutter Micalvi has been sent to search the region. Maritime circles asserted that a 12,000-ton vessel flying the Norwegian flag but manned by Germans was seen cruising in the far south. Shortly afterward a British cruiser called at Valparaiso.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 11
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