LAIN DOWN TO DIE
' DUTCH SEAMEN SAVED DRIFTING FOUR DAYS VICTIM OF SUBMARINE (Reed. Feb. 9, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. When the captain qf the British steamer Glen Orchy, sighted an apparently empty boat 80 miles from Spain* as a precautionary measure he sounded a whistle. The boat immediately became alive. It contained the captain, the chief engineer and 11 members of the crew of the Dutch tanker Den Haag which was torpedoed without warning on February 15. ...(The survivors w.ere in the last stages, of exhaustion after drifting for iqqi’, days in .rough seas. The occupants, had lain.down to die in the bottom, of. the, boat, Twenty-six members of the Den Haag’s crew are missing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20185, 1 March 1940, Page 9
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117LAIN DOWN TO DIE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20185, 1 March 1940, Page 9
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