vital. A large floating crane was sunk. Seaforth wireless
station near Liverpool suffered a major breakdown. House property
and utility services in Liverpool area have suffered extensively.
Casualties - at present - difficult to assess but do not appear
to be heavy in proportion to the scale of the attack. In the
rest of the country, major incidents occurred only at Southampton
where damage was caused to reservoir and to Harland and Wolff's
Yard and at St. Eval aerodrome.
14. Aircraft casualties over and above British Isles:-
German
Bombers: 8 destroyed, 5 probably destroyed, 1 damaged
Fighters: 1 detroyed, 5 probably destroyed, 6 damaged
Totals: 9 destroyed, 5 probably destroyed, 6 damaged
British: seven bombers missing.