SUBMARINES AND MERCHANT SHIPS
CLAIM OF THE THORDIS
EXAMINATION BY THE
ADMIRALTY
(Received March sth. 12.5 a.m.)
LONDON. March 1-
The Admiralty is dry-docking the Thordis in order to prove whether she is entitled to £1160, payment tor sinking a submarine.
The captain and the crew arc emphatic that they saw a (submarine in broad daylight two ships' lengths away. The. Thordis was almost stationary in the roufth sea, nn'd n torpedo narrowly mi>>sod her. The captain, expecting another, determined to try to. rain. Wind and h?a fortunately drovn the Thordis upon the submarine, ami the rending ot.platos was hoard.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 7
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