HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
Canadian Ship Torpedoed (Rec. 10 p.m.) SAN JUAN, Jan. 28. Tire 8000-ton Canadian National steamship Lady Hawkins, which was en route from Halifax to Bermuda, was attacked and sunk without warning before dawn on January 19. It was the eleventh ship attacked off the east coast of the United States and suffered a very heavy loss of life, the casualties being 250. The survivors were picked up and landed here by the United States steamer Coamo. A message from Ottawa says that 33 survivors from the crew of 50 of a torpedoed British tanker were landed by a British freighter after being 33 hours in an open lifeboat. The tanker made the third U-boat victim in the North Atlantic in 24 hours, the others being a Norwegian tanker and a Greek freighter.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22184, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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136HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22184, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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