Two Trawlers Sunk By Bombs
LONDON, May 28. The Admiralty announces that the naval trawlers Melbourne and Cape Passaro have been sunk by bombs. Four ratings from the Cape Passaro were killed. There were no casualties on the Melbourne. The Norwegians sank the German ship Rosario and the Kattegat, which was a tanker, making the German losses up to May 20, .830,000 tons. The Germans in the week to May 20 destroyed 46,301 tons, including four British or Allied ships, totalling 30,181 tons. -
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Northern Advocate, 29 May 1940, Page 9
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