THE NELSON TOUCH
RECENT NAVAL FEATS TRAFALGAR ECHOES LONDON, Oct. 20. To-morrow i.s Trafalgar Day, the anniversary of the battle in which Nelson and the British Navy killed Napoleon’s last chance of invading 3ritain. The Nelson spirit has been active,in the British Navy in the past week, British warships have sunk a German convoy of five ships, shelled Cherbourg and Dunkirk, synk three Italian destroyers in the Mediterranean, chased four enemy destroyers from a point off Land’s End into Brest, and sunk a German trawler near the French coast under the nose of the defences. It has also been officially revealed 'that British submarines have recently sunk 11,800 tons of Italian shipping in th e Mediterranean'.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 9
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116THE NELSON TOUCH Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 9
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