ELEVEN SHIPS SAFE
ATTACKED CONVOY THREE STILL MISSING (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 28. With the safe arrival in port to-day of a 6500-ton merchant ship, which was part of a convoy of 19 vessels attacked by a German raider off the Azores on February 12, the number of ships officially known to be safe is now 11. 1 Five vessels are known to have been sunk and three are still unaccounted for and the hope that they will make port is waning. These last three ships have an aggregate tonnage of 13,000. The Germans claim to have sunk 13 or 14 ships belonging to the convoy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 5
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