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SINKING OF SCHARNHORST Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 5. The Scharnhorst was sunk by the joint effort of every ship which took part in the action, said Commander T. A. K. Maunsell, R.N., fleet torpedo officer on the staff of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. Commander Maunsell, who was on the bridge of H.M.S. Duke of York throughout the action, was answering the question, “Who sank the Scharnhorst?” One curious sequel of the action, he said, was that a good many of the German survivors who took passage back on the Duke of York suffered from acute seasickness. “They were a green lot, but some had been a good time at sea,” he said. “Maybe their long sojourn in harbour had affected them.”—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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