French tanker Alberta survived British submarine attack according to the Dutch newspaper Limburgsch dagblad dated 13 June 1941

An item dated Vichy 12 June reported that the French Admiralty stated that a British submarine torpedoed the French tanker Alberta in the Mediterranean. Although damaged did she not sunk.(1)

Note

1. In the Second World War collaborated a French government known as Vichy France but officially as the French State with Germany-Italy-Japan in the period between July 1940 and August 1944. Their opponent was the French general Charles de Gaulle claiming he represented the real French government and who was during the war in England. In June 1944 was the Provisional Government of the French Republic proclaimed by the same general. This is the reason that a French tanker was attacked by a British submarine while at the other hand French troops fought alongside the Allies.