BRITISH PLANES
GERMAN SHIP HIT CHANNEL ACTION (British Official Wireless.) (Received July 25, 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 24. An Admiralty communique states: "A German auxiliary vessel with a naval escort was located in the eastern part of the North Sea last night. In the early hours of this morning this force was attacked with torpedoes by Swordfish aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. One of the German naval units —an escort vessel of the Konigin Luise type —was hit by a torpedo. All our aircraft returned. j "In the course of a patrol over the! English Channel in the early hours j of this morning one of our motor torpedo-boats sighted and engaged six enemy motor torpedo-boats. The enemy made off at high speed, but before they escaped in the darkness one enemy boat had its searchlight put out of action and it is thought that casualties were inflicted in another. Our motor torpedo-boat received no damage or casualties."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1940, Page 12
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159BRITISH PLANES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1940, Page 12
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