DUTCH SHIP'S FATE
CARGO SHIFTED IN HEAVY
SEA
MONTREAL, January 10,
A message from a port on the east coast of Canada says that survivors from the foundered Netherlands freighter Soemba declared that the vessel sank in the North Atlantic ten minutes after her cargo of steel shifted in a heavy sea
Twenty-five survivors from the crew of 58 were landed by a Swedish ship. It is believed that the others were drowned.
A rescue ship picked up survivors suffering from immersion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 10
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