Over 200 drifting mine is washed up on the Yorkshire coast.
Luftwaffe aircraft made to raids over the Shetlands. No bombs
were dropped.
The British Admiralty announced that the cruiser HMS Belfast,
was damaged on
21
November 1939 by torpedo or mine in Firth of Forth.
The British steamer Mangalore was sunk by a mine off the east
coast.
Five survivors of the Dutch tanker Sliedrecht, sunk by a U-boat
in the Atlantic and picked up after 7 1/2 days in an open
boat.
Paris announced that a small French submarine chaser at some
U-boat.
Belgian government addressed a letter to Britain on the subject
of British reprisals against minelaying.
Two British subjects, Mr Best and Major Stevens, kidnapped
at the Dutch frontier on
21
November 1939 by Gestapo for alleged complicity in Munich
bomb explosion, are believed to have been authorised by British
government to enquire into genuineness of certain German peace
proposals.
The German liner Watussi, thought to be a supply ship for
the raider in East African waters left Mozambique on Thursday
night.
First British Royal Air Force (RAF) man to be decorated by
France for gallantry in this war died in hospital. Sergeant
Observer, J. Vickers, awarded the Médaille Militaire.
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I scuttled
my ship to avoid capture
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
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2194 Days Of War.
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