SUBMARINE SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1942, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUCCESSES

BRITISH UNITS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

\ - v ~ "' LONDON, December 13. British submarines have scored more successes in the Mediterranean. They have sent four Axis ships to the bottom for certain, and probably two or three others as well. They went close inshore off Tripolitania and blew up, ships at anchor. These successes include one armea merchant cruiser and one large tanker torpedoed and sunk, and two supply vessels attacked—one blown to pieces by toupedo and another scuttled, by gunfire. . . Three torpedo hits were scored on two supply ships and three destroyers within 30 miles of Naples. One British submarine, on the surface off Tnpohtania, shelled: an enemy supply ship and sent torpedoes among ammunition barges alongside a pier 30 miles west of Agheila. The barges were blown up. Another British submarine shelled targets on the Italian coast. The commander timed the running of trains through the periscope, and plastered one train with shells. He also smashed up an oil refinery and sank a schooner. The next day he plastered another train, and on the way home sank a 2000-ton ship manned by Germans. As he put it, "We were out to make a nuisance of ourselves to the enemy, and I think we did.".

The Greek naval headquarters announces that a Greek submarine has torpedoed and sunk a large enemy supply ship in the eastern Mediterranean.