SINKING OF SCHARNHORST
GERMAN SURVIVORS SEASICK
RUGBY. Jan. 5,
“ Scharnhorst was sunk by the joint effort of every ship taking part in the action,” said Commander T. A. K. Maunsell, R.N., fleet torpedo officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. Commander Maunsell. who was on the bridge of Duke of York throughout the action, was answering the question: “Who sank Scharnhorst? ” One curious sequel to the action, he said, was that a good many of the German survivors who took a passage back on Duke of York suffered from acute seasickness. “They were a green lot, but some had been a good time at sea. Maybe their long sojourn in harbour had affected them,” he said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25427, 7 January 1944, Page 4
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