NAVAL OFFENSIVE
Toll In Mediterranean (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 18.
An Admiralty communique, announcing further submarine successes in the central Mediterranean, states that two torpedo hits were scored on a large enemy supply ship which drove ashore in the Gulf of Genoa. A medium-sized enemy supply ship has been sunk off Sardinia. This ship was fully laden mid escorted by an Italian naval vessel. . Another medium-sized supply ship was hit by gunfire, and some of the crew promptly abandoned ship. After the shelling, the ship ran ashore, and in spite of the intervention of shore batteries she was then torpedoed, and was seen to break in two. A goods train near Paola, on the western Calabrian coast of Italy, was bombarded, many hits being scored. Macltine<'un batteries on shore ineffectively engaged the submarine. The train was seen still burning three-quarters of an hour later. Early on Saturday morning light forces sighted' an escorted enemy supply ship of medium size about 100 miles north-north-west of Tripoli. The supply ship was sunk mid an escorting vessel damaged. His Majesty's ships suffered neither casualties nor damage. A small enemy supply ship was snnk at. midnight on Saturday within a lew miles of the island of Djerba, south of the Gulf of Gabes, by light naval forces.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 5
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214NAVAL OFFENSIVE Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 98, 20 January 1943, Page 5
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