ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS
CAUGHT BY PATROLS
DUTCH SUBMARINE SUCCESS
RUGBY, August 16.
An Admiralty communique states: "Two further enemy supply ships have been intercepted by our patrols, which continue their ocean-wide sweeps for enemy shipping. These two vessels were the German ship Norderney, of 3667 tons, and the Italian ship Stella, of 4272 tons."
The Norderney had set sail on August 9 from Para, Brazil, where she had been since before the war, and she carried a cargo which would have been most valuable to the German war machine.
It is believed to include 1500 tons of rubber, 1250 tons of castor seed, 97 tons of castor oil (which is used for lubricating), and 620 tons of hides. It is understood that she had been fully loaded and waiting to sail for over four months.
The Netherlands Admiralty has announced: "One of her Majesty's submarines operating with the Royal Navy sank a 5000-ton fully-laden enemy supply ship and an enemy sailing vessel of about 1000 tons in the Mediterranean.
"The total enemy tonnage destroyed in the Mediterranean Sea by Netherlands submarine action has thereby reached, the figure of 26,000.'"—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 7
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