SUCCESSFUL PATROLS
British Submarines Sink 19 Ships (British Official Wireless.) (Received February 20, 10.30 p.m.) RUGBY, February 19. British submarines destroyed 19 enemy ships during recent patrols in the north Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Far Hast, states the Admiralty. A further six supply ships, three of them large, were probably sunk and eight others damaged. The victims ranged from the largest type of supply vessel to coastal craft. The successes included the sinking of a large supply ship off the coast of Norway and four large supply ships in the Mediterranean, where numbers of smaller vessels operating under German conriol were also sunk by gunfire. In Far Eastern waters a large supply ship was also sunk, together with severalsmall naval craft.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 5
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122SUCCESSFUL PATROLS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 5
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