DESTROYER H.M.S. WREN SUNK
BOMBED IN ACTION WITH ENEMY PLANES H.M.S. -MONTROSE SHOOTS DOWN TWO RAIDERS LONDON, July 29. The destroyer H.M.S. Wren was lost through enemy action. The Admiralty announced that the Wren was hit by a bomb during an action between British patrolling destroyers and enemy planes. The Wren subsequently sank. H.M.S. Montrose shot down two bombers in this engagement. The Wren was finished in 1919 and had a displacement of 1120 tons, a speed of 34 knots, a main armament of four 4.7 in. guns, and six torpedo tubes. A Berlin communique states that a U-boat sank 18,750 tons out of a strongly protected convoy. Another sank a 6000-ton vessel off the British coast.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 178, 31 July 1940, Page 5
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