SUBMARINE URGE LOST
VALUABLE SERVICE Rugby, Sept. 19. The Admiralty announces that the submarine Urge is overdue and must be considered lost. The Urge had a displacement of 730 tons and a complement of 27. The Urge, which was under the command of Lieutenant-Commander E. P. Tomkinson, D. 5.0., inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. She torpedoed and sank two eight-inch gun cruisers and a destroyer and damaged an armed merchant cruiser. She also levied heavy toll on the enemies’ military reinforcements and supplies. She sank a very large transport of the Duilio class of 23,600 tons and another of about 9000 tons, also two large tankers and three supply ships, and damaged another. Nearly all her attacks were against well protected convoys. She sank a troopship and a tanker from one convoy, firing torpedoes from 300 yards. She escaped several heavy counterattacks by the skill of her commander, 54 depth charges being dropped alter she sank the first cruiser.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 223, 22 September 1942, Page 5
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