GREAT ACTIVITY
GIBRALTAR BASE BRITISH FLEET SAILS LARGE DAILY CONVOYS LONDON, April G. There is at present great activity at Gibraltar. The Tangier correspondent of the Daily Express reports liiat a great British battle fleet left Gibraltar for an unknown destination in the Mediterranean. The fleet included three battleships, the Nelson, Rodney, and Malaya, three aircraft carriers, 35 destroyers and corvettes, 26 motor torpedo-boats ancl several submarines.
The cox-respondent adds that convoys are entering and leaving Gibraltar almost daily. Concentrations of more than 100 merchantmen and warships are now frequent. The Paris radio reports that many aircraft arrived at Gibraltar yesterday.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 3
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