HIT BY BOMB
THE DESTROYER WREN
SUBSEQUENTLY SANK
BRITISH NAVAL LOSS
(U.P.A. and Official Wireless.) (Received July 30, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. His Majesty's destroyer Wren has been lost through enemy action. The Admiralty announced that the Wren was hit with a bomb during an action between British patrolling destroyers and enemy planes, and that the Wren subsequently sank. The destroyer Montrose shot down two bombers during this engagement. The destroyer Wren was completed in 1919. It had a displacement of 1120 tons, a speed of 34 knots, a main armament of four 4.7-inch guns, andj six torpedo tubes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 7
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100HIT BY BOMB Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 7
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