STRUCK A MINE
ANOTHER DESTROYER
PORT REACHED SAFELY
(Received January 25, 1.15 p.m.)
LONDON, January 24. 'The "Daily Herald" interviewed a survivor of the lost destroyer Grenville, Able-Seaman F. J.. Broadbent, who said that the destroyer which picked up survivors from H.M.S. Gren-
v ju e a i so struck a mine* but was^not seriously damaged. "Luckily," he sa i^ t "the only damage done was to the s tern. The destroyer reached port sa f e iy." . Able-Seaman Broadbent, who was
reported as presumed dead on , Janu*, ary 23, walked into his parents' home for lunch. .. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 12
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97STRUCK A MINE Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 12
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