BRILLIANT CANOE RAID
LONDON, September 3. The story is released of six men in three canoes who sneaked into the German-held Porto Lago harbour, on Leros, in the Aegean, and attached limpet delayed action mines to two enemy destroyers and three other vessels, which blew up. The canoes which were specially designed to carry mines, were launched just before midnight on Juno 17, 1940, from a British naval vessel a mile and a half off Porto Lago. One of the canoes was holed and for 24 hours the two occupants had to bail out the water after plugging one leak with chewing-gum, but all six returned safely. The leader, Lieutenant J. R. Richards, of Cardiff, was -awarded the D.S.C.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 236, 4 September 1945, Page 5
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