SIGHTED AND SUNK
ENEMY RAIDER IN SOUTH ATLANTIC EXPLOIT OF CRUISER DEVONSHIRE. PRESENCE OF U-BOAT DETECTED LONDON, December 1. The sinking of an armed enemy merchant raider in the South Atlantic on November' 22 is announced in an Admiralty communique. At dawn air reconnaissance from the cruiser Devonshire sighted the vessel. The Devonshire closed on her at full speed, and flew off more aircraft. Replies to signals were' unsatisfactory, and fire was therefore opened.
The enemy ship endeavoured to escape through a smoke screen, but in 10 minutes was on fire. Her magazine exploded, the crew took to the boats, and the vessel sank. The presence of a U-boat, at first suspected on account of a boat containing oil drums being sighted, was confirmed, and in these circumstances it was hot practicable to pick up the survivors. No damage or casualties were received by the Devonshire or her aircraft.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19411202.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
149SIGHTED AND SUNK Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in