NAVY AT TRIPOLI
BOMBARDMENT FROM AIR & SEA ADMIRALTY REPORT. SEVEN ENEMY SHIPS SEEN TO BE HIT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY. April 22. An Admiralty communique states that the naval bombardment of Tripoli was accompanied by bombing, carried out at dawn yesterday by R.A.F. and navay aircraft. At 5 a.m. heavy and light units of the Mediterranean Fleet commenced a bombardment and for over forty minutes shells of fifteeninch and smaller calibres were fired at the harbour and port installations. Clouds of dust, caused by the bombardment and bombing, made observation difficult, but six transport or supply ships and one destroyer were seen to be hit. Ashore an explosion and a large fire were caused in the vicinity of an oil depot and the railway station was set on fire. The Spanish Quay, navy headquarters, a power station and a military stores depot were also scon to be hit. Some opposition was encountered from the enemy's coastal batteries, but this was ineffective.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 6
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