TOLL OF SHIPPING
BRITISH SUBMARINES* WORK
RUGBY, Jan. 26. The Admiralty states that more enemy shipping in the central Mediterranean has been destroyed by British submarines.-A submarine attacked a small enemy supply ship, escorted by four auxiliary craft. A torpedo hit was made, and the enemy ship sank. Two medium-sized enemy supply ships, one with a destroyer escort, near Djerba, in south-eastern Tunisia, and the .other sixty miles west of Tripoli, were torpedoed and sunk. Both enemy ships were northbound. Off the island of Marittime (Sicily) a torpedo hit was scored on a large modern supply ship escorted by two destroyers. The ship's engines stopped immediately, and it is considered that she probably sank. This ship was also northbound. A medium-sized laden supply ship escorted by two naval vessels was attacked off the east coast of Sardinia. One of the escorts was sunk by gunfire and the other damaged and was beached in a sinking condition. Then the submarine torpedoed and sank the suppiy ship.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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165TOLL OF SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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