U-BOAT VICTIMS
SURVIVORS’ LONG ORDEAL 'titc. 9.0 ii.m. i London, Ocl. 19. Nineteen out of 22 U-boat victims landed at Keeraun. near Clifden, after fifteen days’ voyaging over a thousand miles in an open boat. Three died of exposu re. The lifeboat was beached in high seas, and fishermen waded out and carried the survivors ashore. Nine were ken to hospital. The survivors had one biscuit a day after being torpedoed —U P.A
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 5
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73U-BOAT VICTIMS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 14 October 1941, Page 5
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