London, Aug. 27.
The destroyer Hostile (Lieutenant-Commander A.F. Burnell Nugent) has been sunk by an enemy mine; the next of kin of casualties have been informed, states the Admiralty.
The Hostile had a displace of 1,340 tons and was armed with four 4.7-inch guns.
She was one of the vessels of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla which participated in the memorable attack on Narvik last April, when Captain Warburton Lee, of the destroyer Hardy, was mortally wounded and awarded posthumously the first Victoria Cross in the present war.—Reuter.
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