Thread: Battle of the Bay, Dec 43
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Old December 8th, 2003, 07:58 PM
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I've just come across some info about a fairly unknown major sea battle in the Bay of Biscay on the 28th December 1943.
It appears that eleven German destroyers and torpedo boats sailed into the Bay of Biscay to bring in the blockade-runner "Alsterufer".
However she was sunk by a Liberator bomber of RAF Coastal Command on the 27th, and on the following day as the German warships returned to base they were intercepted in bad weather by the 6in light cruisers HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise. Although outnumbered and out-gunned the RN cruisers sank the 5.9in-gunned destroyer Z-27 and the torpedo boats T-25 and T-26, also another four of the German warships were damaged.

Does anyone have any more info about this one-sided battle against the odds?
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