EIGHTEEN SHIPS LOST LAST WEEK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 7

EIGHTEEN SHIPS LOST LAST WEEK

SEX EX BRITISH AND ELEVEN NEUTRAL I [ B-Hi-h Official Wireleia ] RUGBY, Dec. 19. ; j Between December 10 and .16 seven i I British merchant ships and 11 neutral ; ships have been lost. Figures now available show that • in the first 10 days of December the | I number of entrances and clearances iin the United Kingdom ports totalled over 1100 vessels of a total tonnage j of more than 3,000,000. Of these HOG vessels only lo were lost. [ The British vessels involved in the first-mentioned period were the Corea (751 tons), Saint Alberta (7397) tons), !Willowpool (4315 tons). King Egbert 1(4535 tons), Marwick Head <491 tons). Deptford <4lOl tons), and Stanbrook i (1838 tons), which are overdue and' fare believed to be lost. | The neutral vessels are the Im-: jmingham (Dutch. 398 ton.';), Garoufalia (Greek, 4708 tons). Toro (Swedish. 1467 tons). Algol (Swedish, 97S tons). Rosa 'Belgian, 1146 tons), Ragni , (Norwegian, 126 i tons), H. C. Flood, (Norwegian. 1097 tons). Strindheim j (Norwegian. 321 tons), German! e (Greek, 5217 tons). Ursus (Swedish, 1499 tons), and Magnus (Danish, 1339 ' tons). : In the same period one German ship, 'the Dusseldorf <4930 tons), was capI lured and one. the Adolf Leonhardt • 2990 tons’, scuttled herself to avoid capture. Second Attack. j The City of Kobe was sunk in the North Sea, believed by a torpedo. Five Britons and 13 Indians in the crew were landed on the past coast and 10 British and 42 Indians are missing. j The survivors revealed that German planes unsuccessfully bombed land machine-gunned the vessel at the I week-end. The survivors of the Norwegian ship Glitrefjeli (1568 tons), which was sunk in the North Sea, have arrived at a Scottish port, says an Oglo message. Five of the crew are missing. Survivors from the Danish steamer (Jytte, which is believed to have been i sunk in the North Sea, were landed |on the north-east coast. One was admitted to hospital. The British United Press Copenhagen correspondent states that a mine sank the Danish steamer Bogo. A trawler picked up the crew. Stockholm reports that, a submarine. believed to be Russian, fired 30 shells at the German steamer Pillau without registering a hit.