DAMAGED IN ACTION
CANADIAN DESTROYER HEAVY CASUALTY LIST. ENEMY U-BOAT PUT TO FLIGHT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) OTTAWA, December 9. A naval communique announced: “His Majesty's Canadian ship Saguenay (destroyer) was damaged by a torpedo while engaging an enemy submarine in ■' the eastern Atlantic. Twenty-one men are missing and are presumed to have been killed in the action and 18 ratings were wounded. “The Saguenay has reached port and is at present being repaired.” It is learned unofficially that the Saguenay attacked the submarine when the latter attempted to attack a fleet of merchantmen under the destroyer’s care. The submarine is reported to have submerged under heavy gunfire and, fighting defensively, it discharged one torpedo before it fled. Captain C. R. Miles commanded the Saguenay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 5
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