NOTABLE FEAT.
GERMAN U-BOAT RAMMED Stirring memories of wartime were recalled by the announcement on January 23 of the death of Captain J. W. Bell, D.S.C., 11.N.R, He it was who, in February, 1915, when in cornman of the 500-ton coasting steamer Thordis, rammed and sank a German U-boat in the Channel off Bea<chy Head. By so doing he won the £SOO which had been offered by “The Syren and Shipping” for the first unarmed British merchant vessel to destroy an enemy submarine, together with a similar amount subsequently offered by Mr Stephen Scrope of Harrogate, and smaller sums by other patriotic gentlemen. In those days the U-boat menace was just beginning to be realised, and in addition to actually sending to the bottom a potential commerce raider, Captain Bell demonstrated in no uncertain fashion that British seamen were still capable of tackling any foe, with the best means at their command, as they had been in past centuries.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10831, 1 April 1932, Page 4
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