SUPPLY SHIP HIT
ATTACKS BY ROYAL AIR FORCE.
MERCHANT VESSELS HARRIED.
ANOTHER VESSEL TORPEDOED.
(United Press Association-Copyright,) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.)' ; - LONDON, November 27.
Coastal Command Hudson aircraft were rocked, at 1500 feet, by heavy blasts, when they bombed an enemy supply ship of between 3000 and 5000 tons off the Frisian Islands yesterday, Two hits are believed to have been made, states the Air Ministry, and debris was seen to rise after bomb bursts.
In daylight, Blenheims harried small units of merchant vessels near the enemy coastline and through a gap in the clouds struck at a hangar and eight German aircraft on the tarmac of tho aerodrome at Dunkirk.
To-day another German supply ship was torpedoed near the Frisian: Islands by Coastal Command Beaufort aircraft ‘ which were on a roving mission. The vessel, which was of 5000 tons, listed quickly to starboard, and her stern came out of the water with the. screw thrashing the air.—British Official Wireless. ' . -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 41, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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