LANDED AT MALTA
MEN OFF TORPEDOED TANKER (Received August 26, 10 a.m.) MALTA, August 25. Missing members of the crew of the tanker British Fame, which was sunk -while en route for South America, were picked up by a Portuguese destroyer, transferred to a steamer, and landed at Malta. The crew report that three of their number were killed in the engine-room j when a U-boat torpedoed the ship.
It was reported earlier that 15 of the crew of the British Fame were landed in the Azores.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 8
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87LANDED AT MALTA Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 8
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