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ENEMY VESSELS IN MEDITERRANEAN BRITISH SUBMARINES ACTIVE (Rec. 1.50 p.m.) Rugby, June 18. Most successful activity by British submarines, is disclosed in a communique stating, “our submarines operating in the Aegean sea report having torpedoed and sunk an Italian tanker Guiseppina Charardi of 3319 tons. They have also destroyed three caiques being used by the enemy and an Italian schooner. The caiques were on their way to one of the German occupied islands in the Aegean. One was laden with German personnel and stores and another with drums of oil. The Italian schooner was carrying troops, ammunition and stores to another of the Aegean islands. “In the central Mediterranean our submarines have been also active. A south bound enemy supply ship of about 4000 tons has been sunk and another supply ship of about 2500 tons and a 500 tons auxiliary sailing vessel, were also sunk.—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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148EIGHT SUNK Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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