TRAWLER’S REVENGE.
DEATH OF A U-BOAT. LONDON, November 17. Around the fish quays and along the waterfront of Hull they are talking about the La'dy Shirley. “She’s had her revenge,” they say. For she landed at Gibraltar her biggest catch —44 German U-boat men who surrendered to 30 fighting men on board the 472-ton trawler.
Twenty months ago the Lady Shirley bringing home to Hull a three weeks catch of fish, was bombed and machine gunned off the Firth of Tay. Then she went into the service of the Navy. Not long ago she sighted a U-boat. As the trawler drew closer the submarine dived. Depth charges roared. Soon the U-boat was forced to surface. She was at once engaged by the trawler’s guns, and after a sharp fight sunk.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 85, 21 January 1942, Page 2
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