U-BOATS SUNK

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 5

U-BOATS SUNK

TOTAL REACHES 44 GERMAN SHIP CAPTURED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrlg&t) LONDON, Feb. 14 It is officially stated that since a destroyer sank two U-boats last Friday, two other U-boats concerned in the sinkings of the Gretafield, the British Triumph and the Sultan Star have been destroyed. It is learned that the destroyer which sank the two U-boats which were lying in wait for convoy last Friday was the Antelope. The U-boat which sank the Sultan Star survived its victims by only half an hour. A captured German ship has been taken to a French port. It is estimated that the number of submarines sunk since the beginning of the war is at least 44.

SINKING OF SULTAN STAR

FAMILIAR IN NEW ZEALAND MANY RECORDS ESTABLISHED (United Press Assn.— vnc. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 14 The New York radio picked up an S.O.S. message from the British freighter Sultan Star, of 12,306 tons, saying she had been torpedoed 230 miles south-west of Land’s End. The crew were abandoning ship, according to this message. One of the largest cargo ships in the world when she was launched from the Birkenhead yards of Cammell, Laird and Company in 1930, the steamer Sultan Star was a familar ship on the New Zealand coast, particularly in her earlier trading days. Her speed resulted in many records being established between England and New Zealand,, paving a way for the cargo ships of all times which have in recent years eclipsed passenger vessels in fast voyaging on this route.