GALLANT WORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 4

GALLANT WORK

BY BRITISH SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN ATTACKS ON ESCORTED CONVOYS. SIX ENEMY SHIPS SUNK. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, December 23. An Admiralty communique states: “Six more enemy transports or supply ships have been accounted for by submarines of the Mediterranean Fleet. One of these was a large supply ship which had already been seriously damaged by a torpedo from one of our submarines. Another of our submarines has carried out a most successful attack on an enemy convoy consisting of two large supply ships or transports, with a destroyer escort. Both the large ships were sunk After the explosion of the torpedoes, the submarine heard a further explosion and the noise of ships breaking up as they sank. One large ship out of another convoy, which was escorted by a cruiser and destroyers, was hit by a torpedo. The explosion of the torpedo was followed by a much heavier explosion. Another of our submarines torpedoed a large tanker. It is considered that this ship also sank. A medium-sized ship has also been torpedoed. This ship may have been an armed merchant cruiser. After having been torpedoed, she was seen to be on fire and had a severe list.”