SUBMARINE’S DARING
(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. Without entering the harbour at all, one of Britain’s ace submarine commanders Lieut. It. Gatehouse, D.S.C., torpedoed an anchored German ship in an Aegean port by approaching the defence nets at the entrance and firing the torpedo through the boom gates. Lieutenant Gatehouse related how he first aptiroached the harbour ill daylight and found the anchorage outside the harbour was mined. L could only hope the ship would sail from the harbour. We waited all that day and the next and I finally decided to attack by torpedo in the moonlight. The torpedo scored a direct hit on the ship, which blow up with a spectacular explosion. The shore guns opened up against us, but I ordered the men to dive and we withdrew.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 147, 22 May 1944, Page 5
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