ENEMY SUPPLY SHIPS
THREE SUNK, FOUR DAMAGED BRITISH SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN (Rec. 1.20 p.m.) Rugby, Oct. 16. Two British submarines in the Mediterranean sunk three further supply ships and torpedoed four others, says an Admiralty communique. The first one torpedoed and damaged a small enemy supply ship near the Libyan coast and sank another small supply ship and schooner at anchor and scored a torpedo hit on a medium-sized supply ship which was beached on the southern Italian coast after R.A.F. bombing. The second submarine sank an enemy supply ship and torpedoed and damaged two others, one of which was a large vessel. —8.0. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 2
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