CHANNEL SKIRMISH

Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3

CHANNEL SKIRMISH

BRITISH CRUISER AND DESTROYER TORPEDOED FORMER HAD THREE YEARS OF BITTER FIGHTING (Roc. noon.) RUGBY, Oct. 'JS. The Admiralty announced : " During an action against enemy light naval forces in the English Channel last Saturday the cruiser Charybdis was sunk, and the destroyer Limbournc damaged, so that she had to be sunk later by our own forces. The two ships were part of a force engaged on an offensive sweep off tho French coast between Ushant and the Channel Islands. Visibility was poor when the enemy force was encountered, and in the ensuing action both ships were hit by torpedoes. Charybdis was of the cruiser Dido class, and completed in 1940. She had been through three years of bitter sea fighting, especially "in the Mediterranean. She was of 5,450 tons, 506 ft long, and mounted 10 5.2 in guns, 16 smaller guns, and six 21in torpedo tubes. Limbourne was of tho Hunt class of destroyer, and completed during the war. She saw much service in home waters. Many of the details of the Hunt class are still a. secret, but generally thev are about 900 tons, and nor-, nial'ly foiir 4in guns are carried, and also' formidable anti-aircraft armament.