SHIPPING SUNK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 246, 28 July 1943, Page 3

SHIPPING SUNK

BRITISH SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. IN NORTH MEDITERRANEAN. SOME RECENT SUCCESSES. (N.Z, Press Association —Copyright) (Roc. 10.10 a .in.) LONDON. July 27. The Admiralty states that British submarines continue to pursue and harass enemy coastal waters in the northern Mediterranean. They also successfully bombarded shore targets on the island of Amorgos, in the South Aegean. Hits were scored oii sheds, dynamite dumps, amd transporter system of a- bauxite plant. Various installations were bombed at Stratonikc, in the Gulf of Jerssou, near Mount Athos, in Postidia, on the east side of the Gulf of Salonika, and at Kastro, on Lemnos. At and near Flavin, on the eastern approaches to Salonika, warehouses and a pier were damaged bv gunfire. Submarines also destroyed three supply ships and a tanker by torpedoes, and 19 small enemy vessels by gunfire. The tanker was attacked in the North Aegean while proceeding under escort by two destroyers and an anti-submar-ine vessel, and was seen to sink. Near Suda Bay (Crete) an attack on a supply ship was followed by a violent explosion, and 10 minutes later the target was still obscured by smoke. This vessel is considered to have been seriously damaged or sunk. In tho same area a torpedo hit was scored on a supply ship escorted by two destroyers and a naval auxiliary craft was damaged by gunfire. Shipping in Italian coastal waters lias also been harassed by submarines in the Gulf of Genoa. A supply ship was torpedoed and sunk. Another was destroyed off Elba, and a third was sunk by a torpedo off the island of Monte Cristo, south of Elba. A small naval auxiliary vessel was engaged near Cotrnne (Southern Italy) and sunk.

In addition, 17 small vessels and an armed tug were destroyed by gunfire from submarines.—British Official Wireless.