Nelson 'Attacked' With Radar Aid
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 31. Shadowed by Liberators. Fortresses and Sunderlands since leaving Lisbon last Thursday, the Home Fleet flagship HMS Nelson was ‘'attacked” by RAF planes during the week-end. A swarm of torpedo-carrying Beaufighters and rocket firing Mosquitoes swept in at low level to attack the 34,000 ton battleship. So thick was the haze of fog over the Channel that the attacking aircraft were forced to use radar to guide them to the Nelson which was flanked by a squadron cf destroyers. The ships were picked up on the green radar screens when the planes were 60 miles away.
From reports and photographs the Air Ministry and Admiralty adjudicators will work out the probable result of the action.
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Northern Advocate, 1 April 1946, Page 5
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