Japanese Tragedy
CAPSIZE IN FOG.
TORPEDO BOAT LOST
FEARS FOR ENTIRE CREW.
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlgnt
TOKYO, March 12. A report from the town of Sasebo, near Nagasaki, states that the torpedo boat Tomotsuru capsized in a thick fog during manoeuvres in the Goto Islands, off Nagasaki. The entire crew of over 100 is believed to have been drowned.
The Tomotsuru was one of the four Chidori class torpedo boats built under Japan’s 1931 programme. With a length of 253.9 ft., a beam of 23.8 ft., and a draught of 5.8 ft., the vessel had a displacement of 527 tons. She carried three sin. guns and one machinegun and had tour torpedo tubes. Engines developing 7000 horse-power gave her a speed of 2G knots.
WRECK TOWED TO PORT.
VAIN SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS
TIIE WORST FEARED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received March 13, 10.30 a.m.) TOKYO, March 12. The destroyer Tatsuta is towing the Tomozuru to Sasebo. The Tomozuru capsized owing to very heavy seas. Aeroplanes vainly searched for survivors, but all the 106 have been given up as lost. The Tomozuru was one of the newest torpedo boats. The occurrence recalls a very similar tragedy, in which the destroyer Sawarabi was capsized in the Formosa Strait on December 5, 1932, when 104 were drowned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19203, 13 March 1934, Page 5
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