

WEARSIDE WARTIME RECORD BREAKER RESCUE
IT was supposed to be a secret mission. It ended with two warships stuck on rocks and one of the biggest rescue operations ever seen. The incident in October 1940 involved two Royal Navy destroyers. HMS FAME and HMS ASHANTI. Both had been ordered to proceed to the River Tyne with other warships to help escort the newly built battleship HMS KIING GEORGE V to the River Forth in Scotland. It was a time when German U-boats roamed the seas looking for targets. A brand new battlesh