"TORPEDOED" BY BOMB
GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP
RUGBY, May 29
A German supply ship of about 5000 tons was left listing and settling down off Brest after a Coastal Command aircraft had scored two direct hits with heavy bombs. The ship was in a German convoy and was escorted by five armed trawlers.
One bomb in the first salvo made a direct hit, and the ship stopped. The pilot climbed and repeated the attack. A bomb from this salvo became in effect a torpedo. It was seen to strike the water about four feet from the ship. Immediately there was a spout of water alongside the vessel, which then began to list heavily. The pilot estimated that the bomb had skidded along the water and had "torpedoed" the ship below the water line.
All the armed trawlers had opened fire, but the aircraft was hit only twice.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1941, Page 8
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