BRITISH MOSQUITO FLEET
CONTROL OF MESSINA NARROWS (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. The Royal Navy’s mosquito fleet is now operating in the narrow Messina Straits, making the Axis task of sending reinforcements and supplies to Sicily most difficult, says the correspondent of the Daily Herald. Since the invasion began small ships have been ranging the straits at night when the enemy might send ships across the narrows. These high-speed motor tor-.pedo-boats and gunboats thus deny the use of the straits to the enemy and at the same time cover the Allied transports unloading troops and stores further down the coast from boat attacks. Early on Tuesday the mosquito fleet met a flotilla of German E-boats coming through the narrows and immediately attacked, driving two ashore in flames. They also damaged another E-boat in another brush with the enemy later.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25279, 16 July 1943, Page 3
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