Friday, August 23, 1940 - Seaplanes sink ship off Scotland

[Louis]

In Moray Firth... Off the eastern coast of Scotland, German He115 seaplanes, armed with torpedoes, sink 2 cargo ships and damage a third.

In the Mediterranean... The British destroyer Hostile is sunk by an Italian mine in the Sicilian Channel.-

 

[Bootie]

My wife is from a wee town just of the Moray Firth... today it has oil rigs that are towed into it for refitting.