WARFARE AT SEA

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 December 1939, Page 7

WARFARE AT SEA

DESTROYER ATTACKED DAMAGED BY TORPEDO [BY CABLE- -PRESS assn.' —COPYRIGHT.] (Reed. December 9, 10.30 a.m.) // LONDON, December 8.8 A Ministry of Information communique states that the destroyer H.M.S. Jersey was damaged by a torpedo yesterday. Two officers and eight ratings are believed to have been killed, and 12 injured. .H.M.S. Jersey has reached harbour. The British destroyer which was sunk on November 13 was H.M.S. Blanche. PLANES ATTACK TRAWLERS LONDON, December 8. German planes attacked two British trawlers, which reached port. Members of the crews said that the Nazis dived from a cloudbank and machinegunned’ the trawlers, but the bullets failed to hit the ships. U-BOAT SINKS MERCHANTMAN LONDON, Dec. 8. The merchantman Nova Scotia has been torpedoed in the Atlantic. Fortythree of the crew are missing. Fortyfour landed at English ports. The vessel sank in eight minutes, and many of the crew were sucked under when the ship submerged. The surr vivors were adrift for three hours before being rescued. • NORWEGIAN TANKER SUNK LONDON, December 7. The Norwegian tanker' Britta (6,214 tons) was sunk by a mine or a torpedo off the west coast of England last night. Six members of the crew were injured and six are missing. Nineteen others were unhurt. They were rescued by a Belgian trawler.