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STRENUOUS WAR SERVICE IN MEDITERRANEAN I — RETURN OF AUSTRALIAN WARSHIP. PART TAKEN IN MANY BATTLES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. An Australian warship has returned to its home waters after serving for six months in the Mediterannean. In that period many hundreds of bombs were aimed at her, but she was only hit once. She played her part in the Battle of Cape Matapan, helped in the bombardment of the Libyan coast, took off hundreds of men from Greece and Ciete, and bombarded Vichy forces on the Syrian coast. Four of her complement were decorated for gallantry in fighting a fire which broke out in an ammuntion ship lying thirty feet from her stern in Malta harbour.
The bomb which'struck the warship killed four of the crew and eight soldiers who were being evacuated from Crete. The explosion damaged the ship, but she was able to carry on and took all the troops safely to Alexandria. On many occasions bombs just missed.
Officers said that during the worst attacks the ship was dripping with water thrown up by bomb explosions.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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189FINE RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 6
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