DOWN IN PACIFIC
BRITISH FREIGHTER ATTACK BY RAIDER (Reed. March 8, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK. March 7. The British freighter Speybank, of 5154 tons, bound for Boston and New York from the Far East with a cargo of rubber, tin, hemp, sugar and burlap valued at £200,000 was reported yesterday to have been sunk by Axis warcraft. Marine circles said it was assumed a raider got the British vessel in the Pacific, but no details were available Before the war the Speybank was on the England-Australia run.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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87DOWN IN PACIFIC Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20499, 8 March 1941, Page 5
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