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Ships Lost

... Ships Lost BemW:cige (1.0. W.) lifeboat rescued six rrtembers of the crew of a small naval craft which sank ff Spithead. The men had to cling for seven hours to the mooring chains of a buoy. Their craft was answering distress signals from a similar vessel ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1944
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Thirteen Ships Lost

... Thirteen Ships Lost Mercantile losses for the week ending August 18-19 were officially stated to be: British, ten, totalling 41,175 tons ; Allied, one, of 7,590 tons neutral, two, totalling 4,134 tons ; a total of thirteen ships of 52,899 tons. The total ...

Published: Tuesday 27 August 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

25 SHIPS LOST

... 25 SHIPS LOST Our merchant shipping loses for the last week for awhich figures are available show that they were over 42,000 tons less than on the previous week. The Admiralty announced to-day that for the week ended March 9-10 we lost 25 ...

Published: Tuesday 18 March 1941
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIED SHIPS LOST

... ALLIED SHIPS LOST America’s Navy Department announces that a small United States merchantman and a medium-sized British ship have been torpedoed in the Caribbean Sea. Survivors »have been landed at a United States port. GUIDE DELPHI. GREAT MAN’S LADY ...

Published: Monday 18 May 1942
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 185 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

349 SHIPS LOST

... 349 SHIPS LOST It is estimated that 349 ships have been sunk off the coasts of North and South America, and in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico since the United States entered the war last December.—-Reuter. On May 15 /the United States Navy Department ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1942
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 561 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Graveyard of Lost Ships rpHE British freighter Ungava (1914 tons), carrying asphalt from New York to ..

... Graveyard of Lost Ships rpHE British freighter Ungava (1914 tons), carrying asphalt from New York to Newfoundland, has run aground off Basque Isle, in Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, a spot known as the ships’ graveyard.” Several coastguard craft are alongside ...

Published: Monday 10 November 1941
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 110 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

8 BRITISH SHIPS LOST IN WEEK

... 8 BRITISH SHIPS LOST IN WEEK EIGHT British ships, totalling 25,069 tons, were sunk by enemy action during the week ended midnight Sunday. Six neutral ships (17,546 tons) were also sunk. In official quarters these figures are regarded as neither particularly ...

Published: Tuesday 06 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 383 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Only Three Ships Lost in a Week

... Only Three Ships Lost in a Week UP to last Wednesday the number of ships escorted in British convoys since the outbreak of war was 8,284, and the number lost in convoy was 18. Another week has also passed in which the Nazis have achieved little success ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 181 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STOP PRESS £r2345 27 SHIPS LOST

... STOP PRESS 2345 27 SHIPS LOST Mercantile losses due to enemy action for week ending September 22-23 were; British, Allied and neutral. 27 ships of a total tonnage of 159,288 COTTON REPORTS Oct. Nov. Jan. Mar. Mav 130 7.90 7.58 7.45 7.33 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 43 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Fewer U.S. Ships Lost YOUR GATES HERE U-boat Defeats Grow IN THE GARDENS KNOX. U.S. Navy Secretary,, commenting ..

... Fewer U.S. Ships Lost YOUR GATES HERE U-boat Defeats Grow IN THE GARDENS KNOX. U.S. Navy Secretary,, commenting on the submarine counter-offensive, stated at Los Angeles last night: “I do not want to boast, but we are showing improvement every day. ( ...

Published: Tuesday 05 May 1942
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 318 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREYHOUNDS

... DELIGHT and GAY RAILLERY. Lost Ships Not to be Named No weekly statement on the number of British ships lost was issued by the Admiralty to-day. This represents a change of policy. It has been decided that our weekly list of ships ...

Published: Tuesday 30 April 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 341 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

13 Shot Down

... the Owen Stanley Mountains, in New Guinea, but in spite of this the ship was ready for towing to Australia for refitting within nine weeks Only the funnel and top struc:ure of the ship at first showed above the water and there were japing holes in her ...

Published: Tuesday 07 December 1943
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 8 | Tags: none