GREEK FREIGHTER SUNK.
ST. MARY (Canada), Feb. 10. Twenty-seven survivors from a Greek freighter landed to-day. They said that the ship was shelled for three and a-half hours before sinking. More than 300 shells hit the freighter. The ship was difficult to sink, because she was in ballast. No torpedoes were fired. Two of the crew were killed when a shell struck a lifeboat, and a third was drowned during the launching of the boats. Three others, including the chief officer, were seriously injured by shellfire.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1942, Page 5
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