SHIPPING LOSSES.
MANY SURVIVORS LANDED. LONDON, March 18. The steamer Tiberton is overdue and is presumed to have been lost. The Berlin radio announces that the Basra was sunk in the North Sea by a collision. The crew were picked up. The Tina Primp was split in two by an explosion. Thirty-six were landed and one perished. Four survivors of the British ship Melrose (1-559 tons), which sank in the North Sea, have arrived from Belgium. The captain said the ship sank in 20 seconds.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9
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