TWO MORE SHIPS SUNK
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RUGBY, S,ept. 6. The Italian liner Esperial, 11,398 tons, was torpedoed and sunk ' off Tripoli by one of our submarines.
The Esperial was in an exceptionally strongly escorted convoy. The escorts, consisted of destroyers, torpedo-boats, motor torpedo-boats, and flying-boats. Liners of this type are used .by the enemy as troopships. ,
A British submarine in the central Mediterranean carried but a successful attack on a south-bound enemy convoy between Taranto and Benghazi. A ship of the Ramb class was torpedoed and sunk. l
Ramb class ships are fast Italian vessels of just under 4000 tons and capable of 18£ knots. One was sunk by the New Zealand cruiser Leahder six months ago when acting as a commerce raider in the Indian Ocean. — 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 7
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