ELEVEN ENEMY SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3

ELEVEN ENEMY SHIPS

SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN & ADRIATIC ACHIEVEMENS OF BRITISH SUBMARINES. ITALIAN UNDER-WATER CRAFT AMONG VICTIMS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, March 23. British submarines in the Mediterranean have struck more heavy blows at the enemy, sinking eleven ships. This total includes two Italian submarines, two supply-ships, six schooners and a motor-vessel carrying enemy troops. One of the enemy submarines, a ship of 499 tons, was sunk in the southern approach to the Straits of Messina, by a British submarine commanded by Lieutenant Woodward, R.N. The British submarine had to leave survivors struggling in the water because enemy planes came over to attack. The same submarine sank a large and strongly escorted supply ship. The second enemy submarine, a new vessel of 1460 tons, was sunk off the coast of Sicily by a British submarine commanded by Lieutenant P. H. Pharazyn, R.N. People on the Italian coast saw the submarine sink. While our submarine was picking up survivors it was ineffectively machine-gunned from the shore. Six large schooners, one flying the Nazi flag, and a motor vessel packed with enemy troops were sunk by another British submarine. Yet another British submarine sank a small enemy supply ship. This submarine, which had penetrated into the Adriatic, was fired on by shore batteries on the coast of Albania, but suffered neither casualties nor damage.