AXIS ARMED TRAWLER
SUNK OFF DUTCH COAST.
(Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, April 29.
The Admiralty announces that during a sweep by British light forces off the Dutch coast this morning, an enemy armed trawler was hit repeatedly and was seen to sink. All the British vessels returned. There were no casualties and only one vessel received slight damage. The British forces were commanded hy Lieutenant Peter Dickens, a great-great-grandson of the famous authoi.. Nearly 70,000 tons of British shipping passes through the Channel each week. Our ships come and go as usual, but the enemy makes only timid dashes from French ports at mg Less than one in 200 of our ships have been sunk since the outbreak of t e war. They are' the only British convoys which have to face shore-based guns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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