SHIP LOSSES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1940, Page 6

SHIP LOSSES

BRITISH STATEMENT. Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at, ll a.m.) LOinDON, i);lay zl. It is officially announced that during the week ended midnight of May 12, eight Anglo-Allied and neutral ships totalling ;lo,Uoy tons were lost by enemy action. It included lour lin.tisu vessels of 8,955 tons. The British loss of toy-' hage was under. half the weekly a,vbrage since the outbreak. . .'Dutch, vessels captured or destroyed in 'Dutch harbours are not included. The loss of the C'anipina by .a mine; on May 10, makes the known totaFGoi’,liian nieichautiledosses at approximately : 630,030 toils since the outbreak. A further five German .vessels of a tonnage of twenty-five . thousand are believed to have been sunk by torpedoes, .making the total .enemy vessels believedly out unidentifiably . sunk', :I'JO,OOO tons, a. grand total of 820,0110 tons, nearly twenty per cent, of the German, pre-war tonnage. - To May 15, 20,708. Anglo-Allied neutral ships were convoyed by the -British -Navy and only thirty-one were lost. Of 3063 neutral vessels convoyed three were lost;. . , Oil May 14 prisoners from German submarines totalled twenty-nine officers, ninety-six petty officers and 142 men.