NAVAL LOSSES
IN MEDITERRANEAN CONVOY BATTLE ADMIRALTY GIVES NAMES OF SHIPS. LIGHT CRUISER AND FOUR DESTROYERS. LONDON, July 3. The Admiralty tonight gave the names of the British cruiser and four destroyers lost in the convoy battle in the Mediterranean last month, when Axis planes and warships attempted to prevent supplies reaching Allied bases in the Middle East. The cruiser was the Hermine, of the Dido class, completed in 1940 and with a main armament of ten 5.25 inch guns, 16 smaller guns and six 21in. torpedo tubes. She had a speed of 33 knots. The destroyers were the Bedouin, of 1870 tons, completed in 1939; the Hasty, 1350 tons, completed in 1936, and the Airedale and Grove, of the Hunt class, of 900 tons, completed since the war. The Bedouin took part in the second battle of Narvik. The Hasty was serving in the Mediterranean before the war.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1942, Page 3
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