THIRTEEN ITALIAN PLANES DOWN
BATTLESHIP NELSON HIT STORY OF ATTACK ON BRITISH CONVOY London. Sept. 30. It is disclosed in an Admiralty communique just issued that 13 Italian aeroplanes were shot down during an unsuccessful attack on a British convoy escorted through the central Mediterranean by a naval squadron commanded Admiral Sir James Sommerville. Six of the planes were shot down by lighters of the Fleet Air Arm and seven by gunfire from warsliips of the Fleet. The battleship H.M.S. Nelson was hit by a torpedo, and her speed was reduced, but no member of the crew suffered injurv. \dmiral Sommerville’s despatch states that torpedo-carrying airraft attacked the convoy and were hotly engaged by tire from lhe war-hips and by planes of the Fleet Air Arm.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 231, 1 October 1941, Page 5
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