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DAMAGED BUT SAFE

TORPEDOED SHIP REACHES PORT (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 4. Four of the crew were killed and six injured when an Allied merchant ship was attacked by an enemy submarine off the New South Wales coast about two months ago. The news has just been released in a communique from General Macarthur’s headquarters. This states that the ship was damaged but reached port. The stem of the vessel was a crumpled mass of wreckage. Two torpedoes were fired at the freighter. The first hit the stern making a shambles of the crew’s quarters, where 22 men were sleeping, and blowing away the rudder and part of the propellor. The second torpedo passed by the stern of the ship. Then the submarine fired a single shell across the bows of the stricken vessel before ordering the crew to abandon the ship. Members of the crew were afloat in two life-boats for more than an hour before volunteers who had remained on the freighter repaired the radio and sent out an S O S. Meantime, the submarine, which was of a large ocean going type, disappeared apparently believing that the freighter was doomed. She drifted aimlessly until tugs arrived and towed her to port.

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Southland Times, Issue 24841, 5 September 1942, Page 5

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DAMAGED BUT SAFE Southland Times, Issue 24841, 5 September 1942, Page 5

DAMAGED BUT SAFE Southland Times, Issue 24841, 5 September 1942, Page 5

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