BRITISH SUBMARINES

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1941, Page 2

BRITISH SUBMARINES

SUCCESSES IN MEDITERRANEAN RUGBY, July 14. An Admiralty communique .states: “The Commander-In-Chief in .the Mediterranean reports further successes by submarines under his command. The- Italian tanker Strombo, 5232 tons, which, as previously reported, put into Istanbul seriously damaged by a torpedo from one of our submarines, has now been sunk while on her way back to Italy to undergo repairs. A heavily-laden supply ship of about 5,500 tons, which was sailing in a convoy escorted by an armed merchant cruiser and a destroyer, has also been sunk.. A large sailing vessel, transporting enemy troops and military stores, has been sunk in the Aegean. Other submarines, finding no enemy shipping on the high seas, attacked by gunfire the enemy anchor - age of Ras Tayones, near Benghazi. In this attack, an enemy supply-ship of about 1500 tons, and an armed trawler, were certainly damaged and probably sunk.—B.O.W. BRITISH SLOOP LOST. RUGBY, July 14. The Admiralty regrets to announce that His Majesty’s sloop Auckland has been sunk. She was a vessel of 100 tons, with a complement, of 188.