U-BOAT SUNK BY DESTROYER
(Daventry Broadcast.) '■-' LONDON, Friday Night ->' An eye-witness account of ihft sinking of an enemy submarine is given by the captain of an American: steamer' the Steel Mariner which has arrived at New York., Ha watched the battle from ' -font! miles away with binoculars. Appar« ently the submarine had'been damaged and was unable to submerge. An ai* v tempt had been made to disguise "itwith rigging as a fishing craft, but thS periscope was visible. The captaiA said that a British destroyer appeared, there was heavy firing for ten minute* and the U-boat sank. • / : *
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 13
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97U-BOAT SUNK BY DESTROYER Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 13
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