"When the first bomb hit, I was at the stern and jumped overboard with three other members of the cre We were only twenty yards from shore when the planes returned and again bombed the ship, finally send-g it to the bottom -..We stopped rowing the fish boat which picked us up and watd as our ship went down."
While some members of the ship's crew were picked up by a fishing boat in which they rowed to the shore, 25 other members of the crew were picked up by a Spanish Republican launch. The Non-Intervention Committee officer those as among picked up b: inch.—the Spanish United Press
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