Only reference I found in 'The Blitz then and now vol 3' for Poole on December 1942 is the following:
"By day on the 16th eleven aircraft using cannon fire, machine guns and bombs, attacked a number of places including Bognor Regis, Bexhill, Pulborough, Bridport, Poole, Wareham, Bramley, Effingham, Portsmouth and Tonbridge. Fourteen people died in these attacks and variable amounts of damage was done over a wide area. A Do 217 E-4 of 4./KG 40 (F8+FM, WNr 4382) was chased at low level in bad visibility by Flg Off Cook and Flt Sgt Warner in a Beaufighter of 141 Sqn RAF and crashed into a gasometer at Bognor Regis, Susex, 2.45 p.m. Uffz E. Diettrich, Obergefr. E. Berger, Obergefer. J. Gester and Obergefr. G. Dehnke all killed. Aircraft disintegrated."
My first guess while reading the the first sentence was that it was a Jabo attack, but the KG 40 loss shows that bombers also flew probably under heavy cloud cover, as the Luftwaffe did occasionnaly over England.
Chris Goss' book "Luftwaffe fighter-bombers over Britain" lists only one Jabo sortie over England this day, by 4 Fw 190s of II./JG 26 that carried a Störangriff between Hastings and Bexhill, attacking buildings in Hastings and a farm and a castle near Winchelsea.
No idea about the ships sunk and hit, the best place to ask IMOO is the warsailors forum:
http://www.warsailors.com/phorum/list.php?f=1