“NOT RESIGNING”
FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY THE THETIS DISASTER lU.R.A.—By Electric Telegraph —Copy right I (Received 12th June, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 11th June. “I am not resigning. Not at the moment anyway, because I love my job,” said Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, when interviewed by the “Daily Sketch.” Lord Stanhope added, “I have done all I can. I know some newspapers are after my blood contending that I should have gone to the Thetis disaster immediately. It would have required an extra tug which was much better employed on other tasks. There is nothing I could have done. I was in constant touch with Devcmport. Carbon monoxide due to fusing wire through the inrush of water caused the deaths of the occupants.” NO FIRE ON SUBMARINE LONDON, 10th June. Stoker Arnold explained that he desired to allay the impression that the fire on the Thetis was anything more than a glow of fused wires and smoke. There was so little oxygen that a match would not have burnt.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 June 1939, Page 7
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