Torpedoed Liner’s Crew Landed

Northern Advocate, 10 February 1940, Page 5

Torpedoed Liner’s Crew Landed

LONDON, February 9. Seventy-six members of the crew of the Canadian Pacific cargo liner Beaverburn, recently torpedoed in the Atlantic, were landed at a West Coast port. Mr Harry Teale, the third engineer, was the last to leave the ship. He remained in the engine room to switch off the engines, then jumped overboard as the ship sank. He clung to wreckage until he was picked up. His gallantry probably prevented explosions which would have endangered the lifeboats. Chief Cook Only Victim. A British tanker picked up some survivors after they had been an hour and a half in the water. The chief cook, who was drowned, was the only victim. The British steamer Marydawn struck a mine and sank in the North Sea. All 29 of the crew were landed. One man was dead and one seriously injured. Merchant-Seamen Casualties. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping (Sir Arthur Salter) said that up to the end .of January, 431 merchant seamen had lost their lives, and 235 had been injured through enemy action.