THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - The small supply vessel (in foreground) well on fire and being beached; in centre, the troopship running ashore on fire with the armed trawler hiding under her smoke, and (background) the large supply vessel being beached. Photograph taken from one of the attacking Barracudas of HMS IMPLACABLE during a Fleet Air Arm strike on a southbound convoy off the coast of Norway. Sighted between Mosjoen and Rorvik, the convoy consisted of a laden troop transport and two supply ships escorted by an armed trawler. When last seen the transport was burning fierce
THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - The small supply vessel (in foreground) well on fire and being beached; in centre, the troopship running ashore on fire with the armed trawler hiding under her smoke, and (background) the large supply vessel being beached. Photograph taken from one of the attacking Barracudas of HMS IMPLACABLE during a Fleet Air Arm strike on a southbound convoy off the coast of Norway. Sighted between Mosjoen and Rorvik, the convoy consisted of a laden troop transport and two supply ships escorted by an armed trawler. When last seen the transport was burning fiercely and in a sinking condition, and the other three vessels had been set on fire and driven ashore
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