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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

99 PER CENT. OF LOST SHIPS REPLACED SIR A. SALTER'S COMPARISON

... 99 PER CENT. OF LOST SHIPS REPLACED SIR A. SALTER'S COMPARISON In months of the war the Nazis I have destroyed less than 3 per cent, of our merchant shipa. We have replaced nearly all these by new building, capture and purchase, so that we now have ...

Published: Friday 19 April 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JAPS HAVE LOST 291 SHIPS

... JAPS HAVE LOST 291 SHIPS Japanese ships sunk by Allied forces in the Pacific since the entry of the United States into the war total 291, according to a list drawn up from official communiques. JAPANESE CLAIM TOWN The capture of Isichiehisun, about 12 ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1942
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHIPS LOST IN CONVOY

... SHIPS LOST IN CONVOY COMMONS QUESTIONS ♦ GERMAN CLAIM “NOT ACCEPTED Mr. Shinwell (Seaham, Lab) asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, in the House of Commons yesterday, whether he could make a statement on the reported loss of thirteen vessels in convoy ...

Published: Thursday 20 February 1941
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 95 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

No Allied Ships Lost

... No Allied Ships Lost A naval officer, who was engaged in the minesweep.ng operations, stated in London yesterday that from the time of the Allied landings in North Africa until he loft not one Allied merchant ship had been sunk by enemy mines. went out ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1943
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 110 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

No Escort Ships Lost

... No Escort Ships Lost The Admiralty communique , states : “Another important convoy carrying large quantities of war materiats has arrived in North Russian ports. Losses were suffered among the ships in convoy, but, despite heavy attacks by enemy aircraft ...

Published: Thursday 24 September 1942
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | 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

THREE SHIPS LOST

... THREE SHIPS LOST. Three of the steamers the company were sunk at Dunkirk. Ihe Mona's Queen and the Fenella, which, since the \i‘break of the war, had been acting its ships, and the King Orry, w hich, with the exception of the engine-room stalf, was manned ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1940
Newspaper: Ormskirk Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 392 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FEWER SHIPS LOST

... to the ships and convoys sailing the seas and increases the risk of U-boat destruction every month. June’s Record The June figures are as follow: British ships—s 2, of a total of 228,284 tons: Allied ships—l 9. of 82.727 tons; Neutral ships—B, of 18 ...

Published: Wednesday 16 July 1941
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 706 | Page: 3 | Tags: none