WARSHIP TORPEDOED
BIG BRITISH BATTLESHIP DAMAGED THREE MEN REPORTED KILLED. VESSEL PROCEEDS ON COURSE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, December 29. The Admiralty announced this afternoon: A torpedo attack, has been made on a British battleship by a Üboat. Some damage was caused and three men were killed.” Inquiries at the Admiralty elicited the information that this battleship is the same ship as that referred to in a communique issued by the German High Command, one of the Queen Elizabeth type. It can be stated that the battleship is safe and is proceeding on her course. It is stated that the warship was torpedoed off the west coast of Scotland. There are five battleships in the Queen Elizabeth class —the Malaza, Valiant, Barham, Queen Elizabeth and Warspite. They are vessels of 31,000 tons, and were completed in 1915 and 1916. Each carries eight 15-inch guns. GERMAN ANNOUNCEMENT SHIP HIT WEST OF SCOTLAND. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) BERLIN, December 29. The Supreme Command announces: '"A German submarine torpedoed a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class west of Scotland.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1939, Page 5
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