Successful Blows by Fleet Air Arm
SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 18. An Admiralty communique states thaJL a German merchant vessel of about 4000 tons which was being used by the Italians as a supply ship has been sunk by naval aircraft in the central Mediterranean. Ail Italian supply ship of about 6000 tons has also been successfully attacked by naval aircraft. When lasc seen the vessel was down by the stern and a large cloud of smoke was rising from it. The crew were seen abandoning the ship in lifeboats. Another Italian supply ship of about 4000 tons and an Italian auxiliary warship have been damaged during attacks by naval aircraft. All the British aircraft returned safely from these attacks, which were aduitional to the Fleet Air Arun attacks on merchant ships in the central Mediterranean which were mentioned in an R.A.F. Middle East communique on February 15.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 44, 20 February 1941, Page 7
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