DRIFTER HITS BACK
DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY BOMBER NO DAMAGE OR CASUALTIES IN NAVAL CRAFT. ACTION IN NORTH SEA. fflF’ (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) RUGBY. December 13. “When H.M. drifter Evening Primrose was attacked by an aircraft in the North Sea yesterday,” states an Admiralty communique, “She retaliated immediately and effectively with her anti-aircraft armament. The enemy plane was seen to be hit and set on fire. Visibility on the surface was so low that the enemy aircraft was not seen to crash into the water, but almost immediately after the burning aircraft had disappeared in the mist the crash of an explosion was heard from the direction in which the bomber had been flying. In the circumstances it is considered certain that the Evening Primrose accounted for the attacker. No damage or casualties were sustained by the Evening Primrose.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1940, Page 6
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