NAZI OUTRAGE
RED CROSS LINER SUNK AMERICAN AIRMEN LOST (United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, May 7 Shipping circles in New York today disclosed that the Red Cross liner Nerissa was the ship reported by the Canadian Government yesterday to have been sunk with the loss of 122 lives, including 11 American airmen engaged to fly bombers to Britain. The Nerissa was torpedoed on the night of April 30, when 100 miles from a Canadian port. Formerly a Bermuda and West Indies Shipping Company passenger ship, the Nerissa was a vessel of 5583 tons, registered in Hamilton, Bermuda. She was built in Glasgow in 1926.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21416, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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107NAZI OUTRAGE Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21416, 9 May 1941, Page 5
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