TRAWLER SUNK BY SUBMARINE OFF BEACHY HEAD.
ffiEW NOT GIVEN TIME TO LAUNGH BOATS. SHELL FROM <HTN EXPLODES BOILER. (Received 2.5 p.m-), LONDON, March 10. Sixteen of the crew of the trawler Grisnez have landed at Newhaven. They met a German submarine off Bcachy Head, which signalled the crew to go aboard another trawler in the vicinity. Before the crew was able to get out the boats the submarine opened fire with her 14-poundcr gun, badly damaging one boat. Finally a shot exploded the Grisnez's boiler, and left her in a. sinking condition. When a large steamer appeared the submarine dived. ;
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 5
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101TRAWLER SUNK BY SUBMARINE OFF BEACHY HEAD. Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 5
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