Captain Of Wrecked German Liner Refuses Aid
(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 23. The British steamer Baltanglia and the • Norwegian steamer Pluto (1598 tons) were mined and sunk off the North-East Coast. No lives were lost. An unnamed 10,000-ton German steamer went aground on’ the west coast of Jutland.
It sent out at SOS, but the captain refused help and would not permit his crew to leave when a Danish lifeboat arrived. Naval Trawler Overdue, The Admiralty announces that the* naval trawler Valdora Is overdue and must now be considered missing. She was manned by a crew and ratings totalling 9. The Admiralty also announces the names of eight ratings killed and 73 missing and presumed to be dead on the destroyer Grenville, which was , mined or torpedoed in the North Sea. There were no casualties among the officers.
A U-boat torpedoed and sank the Greek steamer Ekatontarchos Dracoulis (5329 tons) south of Portugal, says a United Press Association message. Six men were killed and 20 were rescued.
The Swedish steamer Foxen .(1304 tons) sank after an explosion in the North Sea.
Eighteen of the crew were lost, only - one being saved.
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Northern Advocate, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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