From the Captain’s Report:Fire was opened . . .
THE Gunnery Lieutenant wore the ribbon of the D.S.C. on the breast of his coat. Artemis had won victories before, and, after the Captain, it was to the Gunnery Lieutenant’s credit that those victories had been so overwhelming. There was the daylight action against the Italian convoy, when the first broadside which he had fired had struck home upon the wretched Italian destroyer which was trying to lay a smoke screen, had blown the destroyer into a wreck, and had enormously simplified the problem of the destruction of the convoy. The night action against another convoy had in certain respects been simpler, thanks to the Italians. They had not been so well trained, and because of their long confinement in harbour they had not had nearly as muc
