TANKER TORPEDOED
SUPPLY VESSEL SUNK SCHOONER SET AFIRE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 20. An Admiralty communique states:— “Further successful attacks have been carried out by submarines against enemy supplies in the Mediterranean. “The Italian tanker Tampico, of 4958 tons, has been torpedoed and seriously damaged. This ship was afterwards seen to be very deep in the water. “A medium-sized German supply ship, which was heavily, laden and south-bound with two escorts, has been torpedoed and almost certainly sunk. It is considered that one of the escorts was also hit. "A schooner which was probably carrying petrol has been set ablaze by gunfire.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20619, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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105TANKER TORPEDOED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20619, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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