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MADE BY BRITISH SUBMARINE. FIVE ENEMY SHIPS SUNK ON FIRST PATROL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 20. To -have sunk five enemy vessels on her first patrol as an operational submarine in the Mediterranean is the record of H.M.S. Unbending (Lieutenant E. T. Stanley. D.S.C.), which recently returned to home wateis. The Unbending left Malta in October to patrol the Gulf of Hammamet in search of shipping supplying the Axis in Africa, and sank a schooner, a tanker, a coaster, and a destroyer and a transport. The destroyer and the transport were part of a convoy of four ships escorted by seven destroyers which the Unbending intercepted on her way home. The submarine penetrated the destroyer screen and let go all her four remaining torpedoes. The Unbending has had several narrow escapes from depth charges.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 3
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137FINE BEGINNING Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 3
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