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JAPANESE SHIP SINKS. OVER ONE HUNDRED DROWNED. TORPEDO BOAT’S CAPSIZE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) 'Received. March 13, 10.30 a.m. * TOKIO, March 12. Sasebo reports state that the torpedo boat Tomozuru capsized m thick fog in manoeuvres near the Goto Islands, off Nagasaki.
The entire crew of over 100 is believed to have been drowned.
The destroyer Tatsuta is towing the Tomozuru to Sasebo. The Tomozuru capsized owing to very heavy seas. Aeroplanes vainly searched for the survivors, but all the 106 are given up as lost. The Tomozuru was one of the newest torpedo boats and was a 527 ton vessel. The occurrence recalls a very similar tragedy, in which the destroyer Sawarabi capsized in Formosa Strait on December 5, 1932, when 104 were drowned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 88, 13 March 1934, Page 7
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