BRITISH SUBMARINES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1943, Page 3

BRITISH SUBMARINES

SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS ROUND ITALY NINE AXIS SHIPS SUNK. ADMIRALTY GIVES DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY April 17. An Admiralty communique states:--“British submarines have destroyed nine more vessels in the waters around Metropolitan Italy. Off Corsica a British, submarine engaged a mine-layer of the Fasana type and drove her ashore. The enemy vessel was ultimately destroyed by a torpedo. Two large transport barges under the German ensign and an escorting naval auxiliary vessel were sunk by gunfire in the same area. *North of Corsica in the Ligurian Sea, an armed anti-submarine yacht was sunk by a torpedo. A motor minesweeper and a naval trawler, both flying the Italian ensign, were sunk by gunfire. East of Italy, in the Adriatic, a large three-funnelled transport was torpedoed while inward bound for Brindisi. She sank within three minutes. A supply ship of large size, intercepted in the same area, was also sunk- by a torpedo.

“In addition to these successes, another British submarine damaged a medium-sized supply ship, intercepted while outward bound from Durazzo, in Albania. “The submarines which carried out these attacks are under the command of Lieutenants J. S. Stevens, D. 5.0., D.S.C.; J. S. Wraith, DSO, DSC; R. B. Lakin DSO DSC and J. Whitton.”