MORE VESSELS SUNK
BRITISH AND NEUTRAL
GERMAN CLAIM FOR U-BOAT
(Received December 13, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, December 12,
The British steamer King Egbert (4535 tons) was ,sunk in the North Sea either by a torpedo or a mine She went down in 15 minutes. One member of the crew was lost. An Estonian steamer rescued 32 of the others. It is recalled, that the King Egbert collided off the Canadian cdast in 1935 with the Niagara.
The Swedish steamer Tome (3793 tons) was sunk by a mine off Or 4 Sund, in Denmark. The fate of the crew is unknown.
The Admiralty announces that four were killed and five are missing arid believed killed as a result of the los 3 of the Navy drifter Ray of Hope.
The Berlin wireless claims that a returned U-boat sank 26,000 tons of shipping. ' The official news agency sayl that British sea power is distinctly osj the defensive.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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