FROM: ALUSNA LONDON 231300CR984    DATE: 23 APRIL 1940
TO:      OPNAV                     PRECEDENCE: TELETYPE
RELEASE: X-Y-MCM                   TOR CODE ROOM: 1506
 
ON THE 17TH HMS SUFFOLK BOMBARDEDSTAVENGER AIRDROME X SHE WAS
PROBABLY ALONE EXCEPT FOR AN ANTI-SUBMARINE SCREEN X SHE FIRED 217
ROUNDS USING 5 RAF PLANES FOR SPOTS X THE FIGHTER PATROL NEVER
ARRIVED X THIS WAS HELD PARTIALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOMB HIT X SHE
RECEIVED X THIS SINGLE HIT WHICH WAS AFT, THE RESULT OF 33 DIVE
BOMBING ATTACKS IN WHICH 82 BOMBS WERE DROPPED (WITH SEVERAL NEAR
MISSES) KILLED 27, WOUNDED 34, REDUCED SPEED, AND DISABLED THE
STEERING GEAR X SHE WAS BEACHED IN SCAPA FLOW THE NEXT DAY TO
PREVENT HER SINKING, AFTER HAVING REACHED THERE UNDER HER OWN
POWER WITH THE STERN AWASH.  UNDERSTAND BRITISH NAVAL ATTACHE
KNOWS THIS. 
 
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