BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED
STRUCK HEAR BARCELONA CREW IN OPEN BOAT ADRIFT WITHOUT OAIiS (E)ec. Tel. Copyright—Unitod Press Assn.) (Reed. July 7, 3 p.m.) LONDON, July 6. The British cruiser Penelope is searching for the crew of a British ship believed to have been torpedoed in the Mediterranean. An SOS reported that the men were’ adrift in an open boat without oars. The captain was dead.
The vessel, the name of which as given in the signal could not be deciphered, was said to have been torpedoed by an unknown submarine 50 miles from Barcelona.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15
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94BRITISH SHIP TORPEDOED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 15
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