AUGUST CASUALTIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 24

AUGUST CASUALTIES

August proved to be a particularly light month from the point of view of shipping casualties, the return of the Liverpool Underwriters' Association containing details of only four vessels of over 500 tons gross totally lost during that period, compared with 12 in the same month last year, nine in 1936, and seven in 1935. jTwo of the casualties, moreover—both of them British —were the result of air raids on Spanish ports. These two ships were the Isadora, 1212 tons gross, owned by Stone and Rolfe, Ltd., Llanelly, which was sunk at Castellon, and the Lake Lugano, 2120 tons, owned by Chas. Strubin and Co., Ltd., London, which was sunk at Palamos. iThe Japanese lost the Iwatesan Maru, 5804 tons, owned by the Tamai Syosen K.K., Kobe, which was wrecked at Kaihyo To, Sakhalin, while the fourth loss was that of the Spanish steamer Mar Baltico, 3100 tons, owned by the Cia Maritima del Nervion, Bilbao, which sank after collision with the British Baltara in Brunsbuttelkoog Roads. Three other vessels appear in the list of partial casualties as having been damaged by aircraft in Spanish ports, these being the British Stanlake (J. A. Billmeir and Co., Ltd., London), at Valencia; British Celtic Star (Blue Star Line, Ltd., London), at Valencia; and Spanish Andutz Mendi (Cia Nay. Sota y Aznar, Bilbao), at Barcelona.