SINKING A SUBMARINE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 4

SINKING A SUBMARINE.

DESTROYERS AND SEAPLANES

NAPIER BOY'S EXCITING EXPERI-

ENCE.

Quartermaster T. O. Shirley, son o£: Mr T. E. Shirley, Municipal librarian at Napier (says the Herald), writing tohis parents from Sling Camp, Salisbury,, mentions the following interesting incident :—

"I had better tell you of the exciting, time we had nearing the coast of England. For the first time in our lives wesighted a seaplane which flew up to ourcruiser convoy and exchanged signals. The accompanying destroyers thereupon, began ,to zig-zag in and out anil" round? about. At 7.30 ~p.nf., just aa we werebeginning a farewell concert, we heard the report of guns being fired, and wewere immediately ordered to take up^ our boat stations and "stand by." Wecould see the destroyer ahead firing atsome dark object in the water. They fixed four shots altogether, and presently the enemy submarine floated past. our ship with a trawler in attendance-

"The destroyers signalled to our shipthat the second shot hit the conning, tower of the submarine which then capsized. Other shots also took effect,, but she did not sink on account of thecompressed air in her hull. Subsequently the [trawler towed the enemy submarine to port. The whole affair was; over quickly and was a fine example of the work of the British Navy. We subsequently also heard that the seaplane had reported to our convoy ihf presence of the enemy submarine a? short distance ahead and was thus the' means of its destruction and our salvation. This incident proves that the'Bosches' fwtith their submarines are not having everything their own way.''"