SUNK IN INDIAN OCEAN
FREIGHTER TORPEDOED SURVIVORS PICKED UP PERTH, Mar. 16. When a freighter was - torpedoed in the Indian Ocean the men on board floundered in darkness, in terror that they would be imprisoned in the doomed ship. The survivors, who lived on two malted milk tablets a day, believe that two lifeboats from the ship are still missing. After the ship was torpedoed a submarine rose to the surface and attacked again. For six days and seven nights, parched by the sun during the day and frozen at night, the survivors suffered severely from exposure, and water was cut to a minimum. The first torpedo struck at 10.30 p.m., and after the second attack the submarine disappeared. For two days the men watched the stricken ship; then she plunged spectacularly to the bottom. In the meantime a comprehensive search was being carried out by land and ship-based planes. Five days after the ship sank an aircraft spotted the survivors, who were picked up by a corvette.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25797, 19 March 1945, Page 4
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