SUBMARINE SUCCESSES
FURTHER AXIS LOSSES RUGBY, Jan. 25. The Admiralty states that more enemy shipping in the central Mediterranean has been destroyed by British submarines. A submarine attacked a small enemy supply ship escorted by four auxiliary craft. A torpedo hit was scored and the enemy ship was seen to sink. Two medium-sized enemy supply ships, one with a destroyer escort, near Djerba, in south-eastern Tunisia, and the other 60 miles west of Tripoli, were torpedoed and sunk. Both enemy ships were north-bound. Off Sicily a torpedo hit was scored on a large modern supply ship escorted by two destroyers. The ship’s engines stopped immediately, and it is considered that she probably sank. This ship was also north-bound.
A convoy consisting of a mediumsized enemy supply ship, which was heavily laden, and 'which was escorted by two naval vessels, was attacked off the east coast of Sardinia. One of the escorts was sunk by gunfire. The other was damaged and beached in a sinking condition. Then the submarine torpedoed and sank the supply ship.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25134, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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