BIG BRITISH FLEET
' REPORTED TO HAVE LEFT GIBRALTAR DESTINATION UNKNOWN. FREQUENT PASSAGE OF BIG CONVOYS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.-5 p.m.) LONDON, April 6. There is at present great activity at Gibraltar. The Tangier correspondent of the “Daily Express” reports that a great British battle fleet left Gibraltar for an unknown destination in the Mediterranean. The fleet included three battleships—the Nelson, Rodney and Malaya —three aircraft-carriers. 35 destroyers and corvettes, 26 motor-tor-pedo-boats and several submarines. The correspondent adds that convoys are entering and leaving Gibraltar almost daily. Concentrations of more than a hundred merchantmen and warships are now frequent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1943, Page 4
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