CREWS ADRIFT TOGETHER
(Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Friday Night. The captain of the British steamer Ledbury describes how his ship was torpedoed. He states that they were about 80 miles off the African coast ■when they sighted, five men clinging to wreckage from the Menin Ridge. A lifeboat was lowered and the men were rescued. As they were being pulled aboard, a German submarine appeared, fired, and missed. The submarine fired more shells and eventually, the captain said, he gave the order to abandon ship. He and the crew and the survivors of the Menin Ridge got away safely before the ship sank. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 12
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102CREWS ADRIFT TOGETHER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 12
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