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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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In the Indian Ocean on November 11, the British minesweeper HMS Bengal and Dutch tanker Ondina sank a heavily armed Japanese raider, despite being outgunned, about 1,000 miles southwest of Java.
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Small British Minesweeper, with Motor Tanker, Get War Wagon
LONDON, Nov. 25.-The Admiralty has disclosed that a heavily armed Jap raider was engaged and destroyed in the Indian Ocean on November 11 by a mine sweeper of the Royal Indian Navy, and a Netherlands motor tanker.
The minesweeper, the HMS Bengal, was escorting the 6,800-ton tanker Ondina, about a thousand miles southwest of Java.
They encountered the Jap ship, believed to be the 10,000-ton Kikoku Maru or the 6,800-ton Kunikawa Maru, both of which are armed with six 5-inch guns and equipped with torpedo tubes and catapult aircraft.
The Bengal and the Ondina each had only single four-inch guns.
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Indian Ocean
Event Date
November 11
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jap raider destroyed
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A heavily armed Jap raider was engaged and destroyed in the Indian Ocean on November 11 by a mine sweeper of the Royal Indian Navy, HMS Bengal, and a Netherlands motor tanker, Ondina. The Bengal was escorting the 6,800-ton tanker about a thousand miles southwest of Java. They encountered the Jap ship, believed to be the 10,000-ton Kikoku Maru or the 6,800-ton Kunikawa Maru, armed with six 5-inch guns, torpedo tubes, and catapult aircraft. The Bengal and Ondina each had only single four-inch guns.