DESTROYER SUNK

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 7

DESTROYER SUNK

H.M.S. GRENVILLE

8 DEAD, 73 MISSING

SURVIVORS LANDED

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received January 22, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 21.

The Admiralty announced that the destroyer Grenville was sunk by a; mine or a torpedo in the North Sea.5 Eight men are known to have been killed and 73 are missing and must be presumed to have lost their lives. One hundred and eighteen officers and men have been landed. HJVLS. Grenville (Captain G. E. Creasy) was launched in 1935 as leader of the G class of destroyers, to which H.M.S. Gipsy, which struck a mine and was beached in November, belonged. , H.M.S. Grenville served in Spanish waters during the civil war. The survivors were landed on the east coast* where doctors and ambulances were waiting, and those injured and seriously wounded were taken to hospital. ; ...:' /. ' ..' . ■ —■ ——/ H.M.S.'Grenville is the third British destroyer to be lost by enemy action, a fourth having been lost by collision. At the outbreak of war the Royal Navy had 174 destroyers in commision and 24 more were building. OTHER SINKINGS SEVERAL VESSELS (Received January 22, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. The Danish ship Hekla (1215 tons) Was sunk , off the north-east coast, it is believed by a mine. A Norwegian ship took the crew to Bergen. Oslo reports that the Estonian ship Nautic (2050 tons) sent an S.O.S, message by wireless. ■.'' Later a message stated that the crew ; had taken to the buats west of Norway and north \ of the'Shetlands. Russian planes stopped the steamer Kastor in the Baltic. She took a new. course, struck a rock, and sank. The crew were saved. A message from Stockholm states that the steamer Pajala (6873 tons) was torpedoed without warning. The crew, of 35 were saved, and were landed at a Scottish port. Amsterdam reports that the Swedish steamer Flandria (1179 tons) sank after •striking two mines off the Dutch coast. Seventeen were drowned, and ' four rescued after two days in an open boat. GERMAN DENIAL NO U-BOATS IN, NORWEGIAN WATERS (Received January 22, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 21. Norway has asked Germany to investigate whether submarines were re^ sponsible for the sinking of three foreign ships, including the British vessel Thomas Walton, off the Norwegian Germany, in replying, denied that submarines were inside territorial waters. The Government has drafted emergency powers for State control of merchant shipping.