1 Mar 1942

Tunisia
  • The 5,417-ton French cargo ship PLM-20 was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS Unbeaten, five nautical miles east of Mehedia, Tunisia. She had sailed from Sfax in Tunisia in a convoy, on passage from Sfax to Bizerta with a cargo of phosphates. ww2dbase [Mehedia | HM]

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