BEAT THREE DORNIERS
FIFTY YEAR OLD PADDLE-BOAT BOMBERS FIND HORNETS NEST For the past 30 years the little paddle-steamer Lorna Doone has splashed around the I'sle of Wight with pleasure parties from south j coast resorts. But when war came she was call ed up for activei service for the seo ond time in her 50 j'ears' life, and it was; as H.M. Paddle-Mine-sweeper Lorna Doone that she was in a lone hattle with three Dornier bomber? recently. [ The Dorniers thought they were on an easy thing when tliey swoop, ed out of low clouds on to the slow, old paddle-boat. But they found a hornet's nestFour heavy bombs crashed down, Lorna Doone dodged between them, then opened up with all her iimis. No. 1 Dornier caught fire and there were two heavy explosions as it vanished in the haze. No. 2, bad. 'v nit. shed Dieoc\s as it staggered [jack. No. 3 jus't iled. Lorna Doone, with two men '.vountied and a few bullet holes <?» her bridge and deckhouses, chugged
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 127, Issue 127, 9 July 1941, Page 6
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171BEAT THREE DORNIERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 127, Issue 127, 9 July 1941, Page 6
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