DESTROYER LOST.
SUNK BY BOMB IN ACTION. TWO ENEMY ’PLANES DOWNED. United Press Association. —Copyright9 (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) . LONDON, July 29. His Majesty’s destroyer Wren has been lost through enemy action. The Admiralty announced that the Wren was hit with a bomb during an action between British patrolling destroyers and enemy’planes. The Wren subsequently sank. H.M.S. Montrose shot down two bombers in this engagement.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 250, 30 July 1940, Page 5
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