SINKING OF U-BOAT
PLANE & SLOOP CO-OPERATE SUBMARINE SIGNALLED FROM AIR. DEPTH CHARGES EFFECTIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) PARIS. December 29. The newspaper “Journal. - ’ describing the sinking of a U-boat by a British coastal plane co-operating with the sloop Commandant Duboc. which earlier help the destroyers Sirocco and Larailleuse to sink another U-boat, says the Commandant Duboc was escorting a convoy when a seaplane signalled her and dropped smoke shells. The sloop speeded to the scene and dropped depth charges. The U-boat came to the surface on her beamends and disappeared in an enormous whirlpool.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1939, Page 6
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