POUNDED BY WAVES
SUBMARINE AGROUND
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received February 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, February 22. The submarines Sunfish and Sterlet, of the Swordfish class, attached to "the Fifth Submarine Flotilla, grounded in Sandown Bay, Isle of Wight, 'in rough weather. The Sterlet was later refloated, but the Sunfish is still broadside on to the waves and is being pounded. An Admiralty tug is trying to refloat the vessel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 14
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69POUNDED BY WAVES Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 14
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