SUBMARINE URGE LOST
HEAVY BLOWS ON ENEMY <Eec, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. The Admiralty announces that the submarine Urge is overdue and must be considered lost. The Urge had a dis - placement of 730 tons and a complement of 27. The Urge was under the command of Lieutenant-Commander E. P. Tomkinson, D.S.O. She inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, torpedoing and sinking two eight-inch gun cruisers and a destroyer, and damaging an armed merchant cruiser. She also levied a heavy toll of the enemy’s military reinforcements and supplies. The Urge sank a very large transport of the Duilio class, of 23,600 tons, another of about 9000 tons, and also two large tankers and three supply ships, damaging another. Nearly all her attacks were against well-protected convoys. She sank a troopship and a tanker from one convoy. firing torpedoes from 300 yards. The Urge escaped several heavy coun-ter-attacks by the skill of her commander, 64 depth charges being dropped after she sank her first cruiser.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23748, 21 September 1942, Page 6
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