TORPEDOED AND SUNK
* “ FATE OF SWEDISH STEAMER PLANE ACCOMPANIES RAIDER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 25, 3.15 p.m.) OSLO, Sept. 25 The 1510-ton- Swedish steamer Gertrud Bratt, on the way to England with wood-pulp, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine fifteen miles off Langesund. A Norwegian torpedo-boat rescued all 18 members of the crew. Witnesses said that an aeroplane accompanied the U-boat.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20918, 25 September 1939, Page 8
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