HIT FIVE SHIPS
BRITISH SUBMARINE OPERATIONS OFF NORWAY ENEMY CONVOY DISPERSED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright) LONDON. July 7. The Admiralty announced: His Majesty’s submarine Snapper hit with torpedoes five ships in enemy convoys near Norway. Our submarines continue to harass and inflict serious losses on German sea communications with Norway. The Snapper sighted convoy supply ships escorted by planes and armed trawlers, and hit two ships with torpedoes. The remnants of the convoy scattered and made off in disorder for a fiord. The Snapper later sighted a large convoy similarly escorted, and torpedoed three ships. The Snapper belongs to the Shark class, which has already done excellent work, in the war. Sister ships include the Salmon, which sank a submarine and torpedoed two cruisers; the Spearfish, which torpedoed the Admiral von Scheer; the Seawolf. which in one patrol destroyed 8000 tons of German shipping; and the Sealion, which in April sank the Germs n supply ship August Leonardt. The Snapper’s' commander, Lieutenant W. D. A. King, was awarded the D.S.O. in May.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24345, 9 July 1940, Page 7
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