ENEMY CONVOY
ATTACKED BY LONE DESTROYER. (Rec. 11.55.) RUGBY, Jan. 20. A lone British destroyer attacked an enemy convoy off the French coast at night. She sank a merchant ship and severely damaged another before she withdrew with nothing worse than a shell hole in her fL ’ nn ® l , The story has just been released. It states that for nearly four hours the destroyer weaved round the convoy, causing such confusion that on several occasions the enemy were firing at each other. The convoy consisted of three merchantships. It must have been important, for the enemy provided three warships as an escort, namely, an armed trawler, and two fast and well-armed torpedo-boats.
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Grey River Argus, 22 January 1943, Page 5
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