DESTROYER'S RAID

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 5

DESTROYER'S RAID

ENEMY FREIGHTER SUNK

RUGBY* January 21. ! A lone British destroyer attacked an enemy convoy off the French coast at 1 night, ahd sank a merchant ship and severely damaged another before she withdrew, with nothing worse than a shell-hole in her funnel. For nearly four hours the destroyer weaved round the convoy, causing such confusion that on several occasions the enemy were firing at each other. The convoy, which consisted of i three merchant ships, must have been i important, for the enemy provided three warships as escort—an armed trawler ahd two fast, well-armed tor-pedo-boats. The Admiralty states tHat in the early hours of Tuesday morning our patrols and light coastal forces intercepted a small enemy supply ship escorted by two large trawlers close to the coast of Holland. In the subsequent engagement the supply ship ' dnd one trawler were torpedoed and seen td blow up. Our forces suffered only slight casualties and no damage, despite the intervention of enemy shore batteries. The Admiralty also announces that the fleet minesweeper Bramble is overdue and must be considered lost— 8.0. W. . ,