EAGER FOR FRUIT
U-BOAT RISKS ATTACK LONDON, August 9. ' So keen were the crew of a U-boat to collect oranges and apples floating after they had sunk a British merchant ship in the Atlantic that thcsubmarine returned to the surface 24 hours later and. cruised about, the crew picking up fruit. This is told by the captain of a British ship, who was carried down with his ship when it sank, but came up and clung to a floating hatch for 14 hours before getting on a raft “The U-boat,” said the captain, “did not attempt to come over to us, but 1 am sure they must have seen us as they were only about a mile off.” But the submarine made off, leaving the men on the raft to their fate. They were sighted from the air .a day later and a ship was sent to rescue them.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20632, 13 August 1941, Page 9
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