NAVAL ACTIVITY
SHELLINGS IN ADRIATIC
Rec. 12.10 p.m. RUGBY, January 19. A naval communique records much activity in the Adriatic in the past week. Allied destroyers shelled Rovigno, Durazzo, Dreink, and Vela Luka (Korcula Island). British coastal forces attacked a small ship in Sumartin harbour (Brae Island), and engaged a Siebel ferry, sustaining some damage but no casualties. American coastal forces attacked lighters off Spezia without damage to themselves. Rovigno, on the west coast of the Istrian Peninsula, at the northern end of the Adriatic, is 17 miles north-west of Pola. The island of Brae is just south of Split, and is immediately opposite the Allied line in Italy, and Sumartin is on the eastern shores. Korcula is some 30 miles south of Brae, and is separated from it by the island of Hvar.—B.O.W. a
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 5
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