20 PER CENT SUNK
GERMAN SHIPPING PRE-WAR TONNAGE SUCCESS OF CONVOYS ALLIES SMALL LOSSES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, May 21. It is officially announced that during the week ended midnight on May 12. eight British. Allied and neutral ships totalling 15.008 tons were lost by enemy action, representing half the weekly average since the outbreak of war. Dutch vessels captured and destroyed in Dutch harbours are not included. The loss of the steamer Campinas, of 2306 tons, by a mine on May 10 makes the known total of German mercantile losses approximately 630.000 tons since the outbreak of war. A further number of German vessels are believed to have been sunk but cannot be identified, of an aggregate tonnage of 190,000 making a grand total of 820.000 tons, nearly 20 per cent of German pre-war tonnage. To May 15. 20.768 British, Allied and neutral ships have been convoyed by the British Navy and only 31 have been lost. Of the 3063 neutral vessels convoyed, three were lost. At May 14 prisoners from German submarines .totalled 29 officers, 96 petty officers and 142 men.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20253, 22 May 1940, Page 8
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19120 PER CENT SUNK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20253, 22 May 1940, Page 8
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