ALLIED STEAMER SUNK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 5

ALLIED STEAMER SUNK

TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE LARGE NUMBER MISSING SAN JUAN (Porto Rico), (Rec. 7 p.m.) Jan. 28. Three hundred and fifty passengers and crew are missing from an Allied steamer which was. torpedoed by an enemy submarine. Another ship picked up 71 survivors after they had spent six days in the lifeboats. Five died in the lifeboats. The survivors stated that 200 persons were swept overboard when the torpedoes struck. A late message stated that the torpedoed vessel has been identified as the 8000-ton Canadian National Steamship Lady Hawkins, which was en route from Halifax to Bermuda when she was attacked-without warning before dawn on January 19. It was the eleventh ship attacked off the east coast of the United States, and there was very heavy loss of life, the casualties being 250. The survivors were picked up and landed at San Juan by the United States steamer Coamo.

THE NORTH ATLANTIC

THREE U-BOAT VICTIMS (Rec. 1 a.m.) OTTAWA. Jan. 28. Thirty-throe survivors from the crew of 50 of a torpedoed British tanker were landed here by a British freighter after 33 hours in an open lifeboat. The tanker was the third U-boat victim in the North Atlantic in 24 hours, the others being a Norwegian tanker and a Greek freighter. A complete black-out of a 100-mile strip on the Texas coast was ordered after a naval announcement that two Geiman submarines were probably operating off South Texas. One submarine was seen lying on the surface, but submerged after a second submarine, four miles eastward, released a warning smoke bomb. The second submarine then submerged. A patrol of 21 naval planes is looking for the vessels.