H.M.S. York soon came on the scene, and the crew of the Artagliere at once began to abandon ship. The British forces allowed half an hour for the abandoning of ship and then sank the destroyer by gunfire. The York dropped rafts to supplement the boats and. rafts for survivors of the destroyer and a wireless message was broadcast on the' commercial wavelength of Italian stations, giving the position of the survivors.
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