BRITISH LOSSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 184, 5 August 1940, Page 8

BRITISH LOSSES.

Men And Naval Vessels In Sea Warfare. l ENEMY 'PLANES SHOT DOWN. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 4. The Admiralty has announced that the British trawler Cape Finisterre was lost on Friday after an attack by four enemy aircraft, one of which was shot down. Others severely damaged the Cape Finisterre, which subsequently sank. ' Two British trawlers have arrived at a British port after shooting down a German bomber in the Channel. A Dornier unsuccessfully bombed and machine-gunned the trawlers, one of i which brought clown a raider. A speed boat picked up a dead German member of the crew. Casualties on the destroyer Wren, which sank last month after a bombing attack, were four officers killed and two wounded, and 31 ratings killed and six Wounded. On the destroyer Ardent 10 officers | are missing and one rating was killed i and 143 are missing, and on- the de- j stroyer Acasta two officers were killed j and six are missing, and 11 ratings were killed and 140 are missin.2. The Ardent and Acasta are presumed to have been lost at Narvik on June 10. Commander G. E. Glaefurd, of the i \casta, who is missing, was a sub-1 lieutenant on the sloop Laburnum in] .New Zealand from Jo2<i to 1925.