PRESUMED LOST
THE SUBMARINE SEAL CREW OF FIFTY-FIVE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY. May 12. The Secretary to the Admiralty announces:—" H.M. submarine Seal is overdue and must be presumed lost. Foreign reports suggest that some of her crew may be prisoners of war." The Seal was a vessel of 1520 tons displacement, and her normal comnlement was 55. She was completed last year. The Seal is the seventh British submarine to be lost by enemy action. One other (the Oxley) was destroyed by an accidental explosion in the early days of the war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24297, 14 May 1940, Page 8
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