ENEMY SHIPS SUNK
BRITISH SUBMARINES’ ACHIEVEMENT (8.0. W.) RUGBY. Sept. 14. “British submarines in the present war have sunk 300 enemy supply ships, including many transports, damaged nearly 50 more, and sunk or damaged 87 German and Italian warships, including more U-boats than were destroyed by British submarines in the whole of the last war,” said Admiral Sir Max Horton, Admiral Commanding Submarines, at the launching ceremony of a new submarine. The admiral pointed out the very high dividend which Britain’s comparatively small number of submarines paid in successful actions against the enemy. The number of enemy supply ships accounted for. however, was inevitably below the number of Allied vessels sunk by U-boats because a fai greater volume of Allied shipping was regularly at sea all over the world compared with the restricted amount of enemy tonnage in service in narrow, protected waters. -
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23744, 16 September 1942, Page 6
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