FIGHT WITH E-BOATS
New Zealander In Charge (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright./ (Special Correspondent.! (Received September 28, 9 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. A group of E-boats was intercepted and engaged in the North Sea at close range in bad visibility on Saturday by the corvette Puffin, commanded by Lieu-tenant-Commander A. S. Miller, of Takapuna. The E-boats retired ■Behind a smokescreen, but not before several shells found their mark. Commander Miller said: “The fight took place at top speed. We managed to close to short range and keep up a heavy barrage of fire to which the enemy, who was concentrating on eluding us, made little reply. Though the enemy made as much use as possible of his smokescreen, we saw him under the light of our starshells, and we appeared Jo score several hits, but it was not possible to observe the results.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 3, 29 September 1943, Page 5
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