DESTRUCTION OF U-BOAT BY BRITISH DESTROYERS HESPERUS AND VANESSA. WHILE FORMING PART OF A HOMEWARD-BOUND CONVOY ESCORT THE DESTROYERS RAMMED AND SANK A GERMAN U-BOAT. THE ENEMY WAS FIRST SIGHTED AND RAMMED BY HMS VANESSA. THOUGH BADLY DAMAGED IT TRIED TO ESCAPE IN FAILING LIGHT BUT WAS OVERHAULED AND FINISHED OFF BY HMS HESPERUS WHICH RAMMED IT FOR THE SECOND TIME, BROKE IT IN TWO AND SANK IT. SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP. 28 DECEMBER 1942, LIVERPOOL. - Admiral Sir Max Horton, KCB, DSO, Commander in Chief, Western Approaches, congratulating the officers and ships' companies of the HMS HESPERUS and
DESTRUCTION OF U-BOAT BY BRITISH DESTROYERS HESPERUS AND VANESSA. WHILE FORMING PART OF A HOMEWARD-BOUND CONVOY ESCORT THE DESTROYERS RAMMED AND SANK A GERMAN U-BOAT. THE ENEMY WAS FIRST SIGHTED AND RAMMED BY HMS VANESSA. THOUGH BADLY DAMAGED IT TRIED TO ESCAPE IN FAILING LIGHT BUT WAS OVERHAULED AND FINISHED OFF BY HMS HESPERUS WHICH RAMMED IT FOR THE SECOND TIME, BROKE IT IN TWO AND SANK IT. SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP. 28 DECEMBER 1942, LIVERPOOL. - Admiral Sir Max Horton, KCB, DSO, Commander in Chief, Western Approaches, congratulating the officers and ships' companies of the HMS HESPERUS and HMS VANESSA on their successful action
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