EIGHT FEARED LOST
BRITISH NAVAL MEN
CAPSIZE OF LAUNCH
(9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. Eight of nine naval ratings are missing, feared drowned, as a result of the launch which was taking them from the minesweeper Tenby in Plymouth Harbour capsizing during a gale on Saturday night. Only one survivor was picked up when the Plymouth lifeboat, under searchlights from the battleships in the harbour, made a rescue attempt.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 4
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69EIGHT FEARED LOST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21899, 18 December 1945, Page 4
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