... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FEWER SHIPS LOST ♦— A GOOD MONTH IN THE ATLANTIC From A Naval Correspondent The diminution of Allied shipping losses in the Battle of the Atlantic during August has not been less satisfactory than during July. This has been achieved although the number ...

... Value Of Ships Lost The general object of the tonnage replacement scheme is to ensure that w'here any increase taes place in the value of a ship during the war the amount payable to the owner in the event of loss should be used for the replacement of ...

... SHIPS LOST IN THE GRAIN TRACK A Parliamentary return, iaaucd, showa that during the four and half yeara ended June 1875, the total number of grain ahipa reported to the Board of Trade totally loet was 415, and the total number of lives lost was 2,149 ...

... TWO ITALIAN SHIPS LOST. + ARMED STEAMER STRIKES A MINE. Rome, Wednesday. The following semi official statement is published:— On the 6th inst., the requisitioned steamer Brindisi, of 541 tons net, and the Bth, the armed steamer Citta Palermo, of' 1,052 ...

... SEVERAL MERCHANT SHIPS LOST A SERIOUS blow at British naval strength in the Indian Ocean and against Allied lines of communication across it has been struck by the Japanese. Two of our cruisers, H.M.S, Dorsetshire and H.M.S. Cornwall, have been sunk, ...

... More Enemy Ships Lost The following communique was issued to-day from Allied H.Q. South-East Pacific :t- ” Rabaul. Our bombers heavily attacked Rabaul shipping and port facilities at night. Direct hits were scored on large transport estimated at 15,000 ...

... MORE U.S. SHIPS LOST Washington, Thursday.—A Navy Department communique stated to-day that the U.S.S. Cythera, a Naval patrol vessel v must be presumed lost in the Atlantic. The Cythera was taken over by the Navy in December, and has been overdue for ...

... EIRE SHIPS LOST Mr. de Valera stated in the Dail yesterday that in the last eighteen mpnths Eire had lost three vessels. The City of Bremen had been sunk by German aircraft and a strong protest made. Tavo other vessels had since been presumed lost, but ...