AXIS TANKER SUNK
SUBMARINE'S TRIUMPH British Official Wireless Rec. 2, p.m. RUGBY, April 4. The Admiralty announces ' that a large, valuable enemy tanker, fully laden with supplies for the Axis forces in Tunisia, has been sunk in the Mediterranean by a British submarine under the command of Lieutenant L. M. McGeagh, R.N. The tanker, which was accompanied by a strong escort of four destroyers, was intercepted off Trapani, north-west Sicily. The submarine made an attack from close range and hit the tanker with three torpedoes. A heavy but ineffective counter-attack was made by the destroyers. A submarine under the command of Lieutenant R. J. Clutterbuck, R.N., carried out a bombardment of oil and storage tanks at Imperia, on the Italian Riviera. Shore batteries replied to the submarine's fire, but without effect.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 80, 5 April 1943, Page 3
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