LIGHT NAVAL FORCES
ACTION OFF CAPE USHANT TWO ENEMY CRAFT PROBABLY SUNK. BY BRITISH & NORWEGIAN UNITS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 11. An Admiralty communique states: “At 3 a.m. today light forces of the Royal Navy and the Royal Norwegian Navy, under the command of Lieutenant C. E. C. T. Maines, R.N., encountered an enemy force of three torpedoboats, with an escort of R-boats, about 45 miles north-east of Ushant. One enemy torpedo boat was severely damaged and probabiy sunk and one R-boat probably destroyed. All the ships of the Allied force returned safely. There was a small number of casualties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1943, Page 4
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