LOSS TO FRENCH.
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD DESTROYER
(From Daventry.)
The French Admiralty report that they have lost a destroyer under circumstances similar to that in which the Afridi was destroyed. The destroyer .was attacked by a bomber, while convoying two transports across the North Sea. The vessel, which was 12 years’ old and was of 2400 tons, carried a complement of 209, of whom a large part were saved.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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67LOSS TO FRENCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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