RUNNING SEA FIGHT
ENGAGEMENT OFF ENDAU BRITISH AND JAPANESE SHIPS (Rec. 0.15 a.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 29. An Admiralty communique states: "Information has been received that on the night of January 26 two of our destroyers, H.M.S. Vampire and H.M-.S. Thanet, intercepted a Japanese force consisting of one cruiser and three destroyers off Endau, on the east coast of the Malayan Peninsula. " Our destroyers at once engaged the enemy, who retired, and a running fight ensued. One Japanese destroyer was sunk and a second damaged. H.M.S. Thanet was sunk during the engagement. H.M.S. Vampire suffered no damage or casualties. It is hoped that many of the ship's company of the Thanet will have reached the shore."
The Vampire, which is an Australian vessel, was completed in 1917. The main armament consists of four fourinch guns. The Thanet was completed in 1919. and had a main armament of three four-inch guns.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24828, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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