SPLENDID RECORD
BRITISH SUBMARINES HUNDREDS OF ENEMY VESSELS SUNK OR DAMAGED. INCLUDING 87 WARSHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, September 14. “British submarines in the present war have sunk 300 enemy supply ships, including many transports, damaged nearly 50 more, and sunk or damaged 87 German and Italian V warships, including more U-boats 4 than were destroyed by British sub- _ marines in the whole of the last f 4 war,” said Admiral Sir Max Horton, at the launching ceremony of a new submarine. The Admiral pointed out the very high dividend which our comparatively small number of submarines had paid in successful actions against the enemy. The number of enemy supply ships accounted for, however, was inevitably below the number of Allied vessels sunk by the U-boats, because a far greater volume of Allied shipping was regularly at sea all over the world, compared with the restricted amount of enemy tonnage in service in narrow, protected waters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 2
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