SEVERAL SHIPS ATTACKED

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 7

SEVERAL SHIPS ATTACKED

BOMBED AND MACHINE-GUNNED LIFEBOATS RESCUE CREWS LONDON, February 4. (Received February 5, at 11 a.m.) There is still no official reply to the German claims. The following are known to have been attacked: — The Glasgow collier Yewdale, three injured, including the skipper, who was machine-gunned at the wheel and died as the ship entered an east coast harbour. The Grimsby trawler Rose of England, which was following the Yewdale. The mate says four aeroplanes must have dropped 60 bombs. One nearly lifted! the ship out of the water. Three hit, breaking the steering gear. No one was injured. The Whitby steamer Kildale. Six were killed and 15 were saved by a lifeboat, The tramp steamer Harley, eight of whose crew were saved by a lifeboat. The crew say the bomber seemed to give them time to leave, and dropped the first bomb ahead of the ship. The crew left in a lifeboat, and rowed for five hours, when a British plane, after sighting it, guided a fishing boat, which brought them to an east coast port. The Harley is still afloat. Three of the Harley’s engine room crew were killed simultaneously. The raider attacked the London steamer Corland, but it reached port without a casualty.