RUNNING BLOCKADE
ENEMY SHIPS CAUGHT DUTCH WARSHIP’S TOLL (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 17. An Admiralty communique states: “Two further enemy supply ships have been intercepted by our patrols which continue their ocean-wide sweeps for enemy shipping. These two vessels were the German steamer, Noraerney, of 3667 tons, and the Italian ship Stella of 4272 tons. The Norderney set sail from Para, Brazil, where she has been since before the war, on August 9. She carried a cargo which would have been most valuable to the German war machine. It is believed tc include 1500 tons of rubber. 1250 tons of castor seed, 97 tons of castor oil which is used for lubricating and 620 tons of hides. It is understood she has been fully loaded and waiting to sail for over four months. The Netherlands Admiralty announced that one of her Majesty’s submarines, operating with the Royal Navy, sank a 5000-ton, fully-laden enemy supply ship and an enemy sailing vessel of about 1000 tons in the Mediterranean. The total of enemy tonnage destroyed in the Mediterranean Sea by Netherlands submarines has therebyreached the figure of 26,000 tons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 5
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