NAVAL LOSSES
THROUGHOUT THE WAR BRITISH FIGURES GIVEN IN HOUSE OF LORDS. SHOULD BE SET AGAINST TOLL TAKEN OF ENEMY (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) RUGBY, March 4. Replying to a question in the House of Lords the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, Lord Bruntisfield, stated that British naval losses to the end of February were: — Capital ships 5 Aircraft-carriers ? Cruisers Armed merchant cruisers 14 Destroyers .... 94 Corvettes 44 Submarined 44 Monitor 4 Sloops 2 Mine-sweepers 22 Trawlers 459 Drifters . 44 Mine-layer 4 Yachts ‘ 2 Gunboats 5 Cutters 2 Lord Bruntisfield added that it was a pity that these figures would have to be published without the losses the Navy had been able to inflict on enemy vessels, which would put the figures in a very different light.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430305.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
131NAVAL LOSSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in