TWO MEN KILLED WHEN SHIP HITS WRECKED LINER
COPENHAGEN, October 4 (Rec. 2 pm).'—Two men were killed and three hurt when the steamer- Mira struck the wreck of the German liner, Gneisenau, near Gedser. Two German salvage craft are on the way to the Mira which.is said to be held fast on the wreck. It was first reported that the Mira had 'struck the wreck of the German battle-cruiser Gneisenau, but it is now clear that the wrecked vessel was the German liner sunk by a mine in the Baltic in 1943 and not the battleship wrecked by British bombers at Gdynia. .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 5
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