The Archive · 1941

British Submarine Successes Against Italian Ships

London, June 15.

Successful attacks by British submarines against enemy shipping in the Mediterranean. ju which ten Italian vessels were ferreted out in harbours as well as chased on the high seas and were sunk or damaged. were announced by the Admiralty in a communique last night.

These operations are described as follows: "In the central Mediterranean, a harbour of the Italian island of Lampedusa (half-way between Malta and the Tunisian coast) has been attacked by a submarine and a fully-laden supply ship of about 1,000 tons lying in the harbour sunk by torpedo.

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