SMALL VESSEL'S FEAT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 256, 28 September 1942, Page 5

SMALL VESSEL'S FEAT

- SUBMARINE DESTROYED BLOWN TO SURFACE (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. '27. How H.M.S. Lulworth (a former American coastguard cutter) rammed and sank a large Italian submarine, the Pictro Calvi, in the Atlantic is described by the Admiralty. While on convoy duty the Lulworth attacked the Pietro Calvi with ■ depth charges and blew the submarine to the surface.

The Lulworth then scored direct shell hits, killing the commanding officer and one member of the gun crew. The Lulworth finally rammed the submarine, pushing her over and washing a number of her crew into the sea. The Italians theh surrendered, but not before their navigating officer, a former Olympic Games swimmer who was in the water swimming with a vigorous crawl, had been temporarily mistaken for an enemy torpedo approaching the Lulworth. Thirty-six prisoners were,taken. Direct hits were scored on the conning-tower of a second submarine which attempted to interfere, though its destruction could not be confirmed. Wireless. FIGHT WITH U-BOAT PACK.

An Ottawa cable says the Canadian destroyer Ottawa, the loss of which was announced on September 21, sank after a four days' running battle with a submarine pack which attacked a convoy in mid-Atlantic. Survivors revealed that many of the crew, fatigued by the long fight, slipped to death from rafts. The Ottawa carried 22 British men rescued from a torpedoed merchantman. Of the 189 men aboard the destroyer only 76 were saved.