FRENCH NAVY
DESTROYER SERIOUSLY DAMAGED PATROL SHIP SUNK BY MINE. SUBMARINE TORPEDOES U-BOAT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 2. A French official communique states: “During operations in the North Sea one of our destroyers was seriously damaged, and one of our patrol ships was sunk by a mine. On the other hand, one of our submarines torpedoed an enemy submarine.” According to a Daventry announcement the torpedoing of a U-boat by a French submarine is only the second feat of its kind in the war. In an ear-, tier instance an enemy submarine was torpedoed by a British submarine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 5
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