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GAINED BY SUBMARINES IN MEDITERRANEAN NUMBER OF ENEMY SHIPS SUNK. TOLL TAKEN ALSO OF ESCORT VESSELS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, January 25. The Admiralty states that more enemy shilpping in the Central Mediterranean has been destroyed by British submarines. A submarine attacked a small enemy supply ship escorted by four auxiliary craft. A torpedo hit was scored and the enemy ship was seen to sink. Two medium-sized enemy supply ships, one with a destroyer escort, near Djerba, in South-Eastern Tunisia, and the other 60 miles west of Tripoli, were torpedoed and sunk. Both enemy ships were north-bound. Off Sicily, a torpedo hit was scored on a large modern supply ship, escorted by two destroyers. The ship’s engines stopped immediately, and it is considered that she probably sank. Tiiis ship was also north-bound.
A convoy consisting of a mediumsized and laden enemy supply ship, escorted by two naval vessels, was attacked off the east coast of Sardinia. One of the escort ships was sunk by gunfire and the other damaged and beached in a sinking condition. Then the submarine torpedoed and sank the supply ship.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1943, Page 4
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