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FRENCH TORPEDO BOAT SUNK IN CHANNEL. CAPTAIN ft QUARTERMASTER DROWNED. (tudepciidcul Cable Service.l (Received This Dav 10 111 ain I PARIS, Augusl 11. A French motor torpedo boat, speeding al. 35 knots, struck wreckage in the English Channel, north-west of Dieppe last night, and sank immediately. The commander amt a quartermaster were drowned The remaining six members of the crew clung Io a raft for nearly twelve hours before they were picked up by a French freighter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1939, Page 5
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