SUNK BY HER CREW
GERMAN TANKER
CAPTURE AVOIDED
NEW YORK, November 2,
A Balboa report says it is reliably stated that the German tanker Emmy Friederich (4327 tons) was sunk by her own crew in the Caribbean Sea in order to avoid capture by a British cruiser.
The Panama correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that a cruiser encountered the tanker on October 24, running without ! lights. She claimed to be neutral. Asked why she was darkened, she replied that sh» was having trouble with the lights. She was then ordered to stop. She did not comply, but replied that she was having trouble with her engines. The cruiser's next order, however, was obeyed.
A boarding party found the tanker's crew standing by the lifeboats. The captain remarked: "Well, gentlemen, there is nothing you can do. We have opened the seacocks and smashed the valves, and so we had better take to the boats."
The cruiser took the crew aboard and, stood by till the tanker sank.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 8
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