ENEMY CONVOY
ATTACKED BY AIRCRAFT IN MEDITERRANEAN
THREE SHIPS SUNK OR BADLY DAMAGED.
SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITIES IN OTHER AREAS.
LONDON, August 19. British planes have made yet an-
other highly successful attack on an enemy convoy in the Central
Mediterranean, Three vessels were
either sunk or badly damaged.
Fleet Air Arm aircraft sighted five large merchant vessels and a tanker escorted by six destroyers. One merchant ship of 6,000 tons was hit by an aerial torpedo and sank. A second vessel was damaged and had to be beached. It was latter attacked again and set on fire. The tanker was also set on fire. Further air raids have been made on Benghazi and Tripoli and a force of Messerschmitts has been routed off the Egyptian coast. Enemy positions in Abyssinia have been bombed and machine-gunned. An Italian seaplane was shot down off Malta. Two British planes are missing. Three enemy planes were shot down today off Malta. They were intercepted by British fighters when attempting to reach the island. One pilot bagged two of the victims and the other plane was pursued and shot down in flames over Sicily.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 5
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