81 SERVICEMEN DROWNED
\ LONDON, April 30. Eighty-one members of the Services were drowned when two barges were overwhelmed in rough seas off the Welsh coast on April 24. There were only three survivors. A naval boat which put out to rescue one barge was also overturned, five sailors being drowned Most of the bodies have been recovered; 30 were buried in one grave. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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