TRAWLER SUNK
COLLISION WITH SUBMARINE LONDON, Feb. 11. ' The British submarine Saga sent a wireless message to' Lloyds that she had been in collision with the trawler Girl Lena, which was sunk. All the trawler's crew were taken on board the Saga, which asked for medical assistance to be ready when she puts into Plymouth. • s , The steamer Empire Mombasa sent out an S.O.S. after she developed engine trouble off Kerry Rock, north of Cape Wrath. A lifeboat, answering the call was fighting its way through tremendous seas, whipped up by a 60-mile-an-hour gale, when the Empire Mombasa reported that she was proceeding under her own steam. The lifeboat was recalled. The Empire Mombasa was on her maiden voyage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 7
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