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Canadian Warship Aids in Action
LONDON, April 5 (CP). — British and Canadian destroyers patrolling off the Norwegian coast early yesterday torpedoed and sank one supply ship of a seven-ship enemy convoy and scored shell hits on a second supply ship and an escort vessel, the Admiralty announced today.
A third supply ship was probably hit by a torpedo, the communique said.
H.M.C.S. Iroquois and H.M.S. Zealous, Zest and Onslow suffered no casualties and only “very superficial damage.” The engagement took place at the mouth of the Josing Fjord under a sky lit by red and green tracers and flaming “onions” fired by the enemy escort, apparently in the belief that a German plane which dropped a flare over the Allied craft was an Allied plane attacking the convoy. The whole action lasted only ten minutes.
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