FREIGHTER SUNK EIGHT MILES OFF COAST
DRAMATIC ACCOUNT OF U-BOAT ATTACK MEN CLING TO RAFT. Received Oct. 28, 6.5 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 27. The captain of the British freighter Ledbury to-day gave an account of the sinking of his ship by a German U-boat. The Ledbury was about eight miles off the African coast, he said, when it sighted a raft to which five men were clinging. They were survivors of the British freighter Menin Ridge, which had been sunk earlier, and were rescued by the lifeboat of the Ledbury. As the survivors were being hoisted on board a submarine appeared and fired a torpedo, which missed. It then commenced to shell the Ledbury, and the order to abandon ship was given. The crew and the Menin Ridge survivors took to the boats, and all got away safely before the Ledbury sunk.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 8
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