According to messages from Ottawa six officers and 34 ratings were lost when the British armed merchant cruiser Rajputana was torpedoed, says a Britisli Official • Wireless message. The ship was struck twice and sank within four and a half hours. A tribute to tlie high morale of the crew was paid by the senior officer when the survivors were landed in Canada.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7
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