HIT WITH TORPEDOES
SEVERAL ENEMY VESSELS (Rec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 23. An Admiralty communique states that an enemy cruiser has been torpedoed and possibly sunk by a sub-' marine of the Mediterranean Fleet. When the cruiser was attacked it formed part of a force of three cruisers and three destroyers. Subsequent air reconnaissance showed that a large area of sea in the locality where the attack was made was covered with oil. while only two cruisers were with the enemy force. An enemy destroyer has also been hit with two torpedoes and probably sunk, while two enemy supply ships were torpedoed. All these successes were in the central Mediterranean.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 7
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