BRITISH TRAP-SHIP
SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE.
(Received August 29, 10.45 a,m.)
AMSTERDAM, 28th August. The Hamburg Nachrichten describes the sinking of a British trap-ship by a big German submarine. The submarine officers sighted a steamer of 1500 tons, which excited attention Vby her high bridge and high deck erections, and her wild zigzag course. The submarine put in its last torpedo, which exploded, the trap-ship sinking in three minutes after the second explosion in the boilerhouse. Only a single boat was launched, and the six survivors confessed that the ship was a submarine trap-ship called Warner, The captain and all the officers perished.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 7
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103BRITISH TRAP-SHIP Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 7
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