CLOSE-RANGE FIGHT
E-BOATS PUT TO FLIGHT BRITISH "CORVETTE (Special Correspondent.) (11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. A group of E-boats was intercepted and engaged in the North Sea at close range in bad visibility on Saturday by the corvette Puflin, commanded by Lieut.-Commander A. S. Miller, of Takapuna. The E-boats retired behind a smoke-screen but not before several shells found their mark. ' Lieut.-Commander Miller said: “The fight took place at top speed. We managed to close to short range and keep up a heavy barrage of fire to which the enemy, who was concentrating on eluding us, made little reply. Although the enemy made as much use as possible of his smokescreen. we saw him under the light of our starshells and appeared to score several hits, but it was not possible to observe the results.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21212, 29 September 1943, Page 3
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