An item
reported that a day earlier fire broke out on board of the British oil tanker
Valverda (8.807 tons) on the Atlantic Ocean sending SOS’s. Six merchant ships
nearby were full speed underway to assist her. Her captain sent to the owners a
telegram that the fire broke out in the engine room but now was decreasing. Another
item calls her an Italian ship underway from Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
underway towards Hamburg, Germany and now around 1.000 nautical miles distance
east of the Bahamas. The German ship Saarland, Dutch cargo ship Costa Rica and
the Norwegian tanker Solsten were underway towards her. The newspaper
Limburgsch dagblad of the same date called her British and that in the meantime
also two British warships included the training cruiser HMS Frobisher underway
were.
