LOSS OF ORONSAY
CLAIM CONFIRMED CREW REPORTED SAFE SYDNEY. Dec. 2. A report that the Orient liner Oronsay had been sunk in the Atlantic, made by the Rome radio on October 12. was confirmed by the Sydney office of the company yesterday. A message from London yesterday quoted a claim by the Italian newspaper Giornale d’ltalia that an Italian submarine had struck; the liner with three torpedoes. It was stated that lifeboats were lowered before the vessel sank. According to reports received in Sydney, most of the crew, including the master, Captain Norrnan Savage, and the ship’s doctor, Dr. Mcllroy, were saved. A few, at first reported missing, but later picked up, included Australians. They were taken to Dakar, in French West Africa.
The Oronsay was in the service between Australia and England for years, and had made voyages to the Pacific Islands. She v/as one of the company’s five 20,000-tonners.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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151LOSS OF ORONSAY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 3
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