HEROIC FIGHT
AGAINST ENEMY AIRCRAFT. MADE BY DAMAGED BRITISH DESTROYER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 26. The story of a 20-hours’ struggle to get half a destroyer- back to harbour, and how she continued with her back broken and her bows sunk to fight off enemy aircraft, can now be told because the destroyer, with its new bow, is back at sea again. She is H.M.S. Wolfhound, a veteran, 25 years old.
While escorting a convoy off the east coast of Britain she was attacked by aircraft. With her back broken and her main deck split open, she gradually came to a stop, and within threequarters of an hour 100 feet of her bows dropped off and sank, but by skilful seamanship the commanding officer got the rest of the ship home while the gunners still engaged enemy aircraft, even when the fore-part of the ship had to be evacuated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 2
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