"Axis Shipping Sunk by Submarine's Gun Off Italian Coast. March and April 1943, in Hm Submarine Safari. the Daring of Our Submarine Commanders "under the Nose" of the Enemy Is Typified in This Striking Picture Taken by a Naval Officer Off the Italian Coast." The destruction of an Axis Minesweeper by gunfire. The crippled ship eventually beached herself in a sinking condition.