CONVOYS ATTACKED
NAZI AIRCRAFT FAIL. ONE crashes' on ship: (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 3, 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 2. An Admiralty communique states that one of our convoys in the North Sea was repeatedly attacked by German aircraft yesterday afternoon. No damage was done to any ships. One of the escorting vessels, H.M.S. Weston, shot down one enemy aircraft. There were no casualties in the Weston.
In another part of the North Sea the steamship Highlander was twice attacked by enemy aircraft last night. In the first attack the enemy aircraft dropped bombs, which missed, and then raked the ship with machine-gun fire. While doing so the German aircraft was hit by the defensive armament of the Highlander, and was seen to crash into the sea in flames 100 yards astern of the ship. “Ten minutes later the Highlander was attacked by another. German aircraft. but the bombs again missed. As the aircraft circled to renew the attack it was hit, causing it to lose height. The .aircraft’s port wing struck the Highlander’s port lifeboat at the davits. This swung the machine round and it crashed on the poop of the Highlander,' which this morning steamed into a harbour with the wreckage of the aircraft on the poop. The Highlander’s only casualties were two wounded.
A Berlin communique says German fighters attacked a few small convoys yesterday, also several armed enemy merchantmen off the Humber Estuary, sinking one merchantman and damaging two merchantmen, a tanker, and a minesweeper.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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