ITALIAN SUBMARINE CUT IN HALF
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, September 4. An Admiralty communique states that H.M.S. Hermione recently sighted an Italian U-boat on the surface shortly before dawn. While the cruiser altered her course and increased to full speed the enemy attempted to crash dive, but the Hermione cut the U-boat in half, carrying a portion of the wreckage away on her bows. There were no survivors from the U-boat. The Hermione, a cruiser of 5450 tons armed with 10 5.25 inch guns, was completed last year. She is one of a class of 10 cruisers, work on which was begun at the end of 1937.
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Southland Times, Issue 24533, 6 September 1941, Page 7
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