U-BOAT WARFARE
BEAVERBURN SURVIVORS 76 LANDED IN ENGLAND (United Press Assn.—F.lcc. Tel. Cop3*riglit) (Received Feb. 9, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 8 Seventy-six persons from the Canadian Pacific cargo liner. Beaverburn, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic, were to-day landed at a west coast port. Mr Harry Tcalc, the third engineer, was the last to leave the ship. He remained in the engine-room to switch off the engines and jumped overboard as the ship sunk. He clung to wreckage until picked up. His gallantry probably prevented explosions endangering the lifeboats. A British tanker picked up the survivors after one and a-half hours. The chief cook was drowned, he being the only victim.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21034, 9 February 1940, Page 6
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