A German raid on the cross-channel transport service is beaten off, although it does sink what is described as an empty transport (see page 9). Two destroyers are sunk, which leads a leader on page 8 to sing the praises of the work the Royal Navy is doing to protect this lifeline, but conveniently overlooks the fact that one destroyer of our own is missing feared lost and another is grounded after receiving damage. As always the loss is spun – Archibald Hurt’s analysis on page 9 repeats the well-worn canard about how the lost vessel is an elderly one of little military value. And as nowhere does it state how many vessels of our own were involved, it is a bit hard to decide just how effective the defence was; as two ships seem to have been lost from each side could readers have wondered whether it was honours even, despite the spinning?