TRAWLER LOST

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 5

TRAWLER LOST

ACTION WITH DIVE-BOMBERS.

ONE GERMAN PLANE DESTROYED FLIES TO PIECES IN MID-AIR. (United Press Association—Copyright ) (Received This Dav, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 26. The Admiralty announces that his Majesty’s trawler Fleming was lost in. an action between two of our trawders and "four dive-bombers.' "7 ~ The trawlers Fleming and Berberis -were.-in company when four German aircraft appeared from the clouds. Two attacked the Fleming and the other-two the Berberis. The Fleming sustained a direct hit amidships and sank. The Berberis opened a hot, accurate fire with anti-aircraft guns, and one of her first shells scored a direct hit, which must have struck a bomb-rack, since the aircraft flew to pieces in midair. The only wreckage subsequently picked up was a rubber boat and a few fragments of wood. There was no sign of the aircraft’s crew. Another shell from the Berberis severely damaged another German aircraft., which is considered unlikely' to have been able to return to its base. The Fleming’s survivors were picked up by the trawler Corena, which Was in the vicinity. There were no casualties in either of the other two trawlers.— British Official Wireless.

TWO DESTROYERS DAMAGED.

ATTACKED BY DIVE BOMBERS.

CASUALTIES ON THIRD' SHIP.

(Received This Day, 10.25 a,m.)

LONDON, July 26. The Admiralty reports that two destroyers were- damaged when: they were attacked by dive-bombers. There were some.'casualties aboard the- -destroyer Boreas.