LANDED ON SHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 12

LANDED ON SHIP

'NAZI RAIDING PLANE

WRECKAGE BROUGHT HOME

ATTACKS ON CONVOY

(U.P.A. and Official Wireless.)

(Received August 3, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 2.

An Admiralty communique states

"One of our convoys in the North Sea was repeatedly attacked by German aircraft yesterday afternoon. No damage was done to any of the ships in the convoy. One of the escorting vessels, H.M.S. Weston, shot down one enemy aircraft. There were no casualties on H.M.S. Weston.

"In another part of the North Sea the s.s. Highlander was twice attacked by enemy aircraft last night. In the first attack enemy aircraft dropped bombs which missed, and then raked the ship with machine-gun fire. While doing so, the German aircraft was. hit by the defensive armament of the Highlander and was seen to crash into the sea in flames 100 yards astern of the ship. : :

"Ten minutes later the Highlander; was attacked by another German aircraft. Bombs again missed. As the | aircraft circled to renew the attack it was hit, causing it to lose height. The aircraft's port wing struck the Highlander's port lifeboat at the davits. This swung the machine round and it crashed on the poop of the Highlander, which this morning steamed into harbour with the wreckage of the aircraft on the poop. The Highlander's only casualties were two wounded. LIGHTSHIP TENDER ATTACKED, j The Trinity House tender Alert is ' the latest victim of Germany's illegal attacks against lightships. Three German planes bombed and machinegunned the Alert while she was on her way to a lightship with a relief crew of 30 for the lightship. Thirty-nine bombs missed but several members of the Alert's crew and also lightship men were wounded. A Berlin communique states that German fighters attacked a few small convoys yesterday, and also several armed enemy merchantmen off the Humber Estuary and Yarmouth, sinking one merchantman and damaging two merchantmen, a tanker, and a mine-sweeper. A German plane destroyed an enemy submarine on July 31 in Norwegian waters. At noon yesterday (continues the communique) eight Blenheims attacked the Querqueville airport near Cherbourg.; All eight planes were shot down. There were no German losses. A U-boat sank an enemy submarine. This U-boat, on two expeditions, has sunk twelve armoured merchantmen totalling 74,338 tons, the destroyer Whirlwind, and a submarine.