PADDLE-STEAMER SINKS A SUBMARINE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 8

PADDLE-STEAMER SINKS A SUBMARINE.

.'MANX CAPTAIN'S GALLANT ' FKAT.

rho-TUlo of Man Examiner of May -nth says:—Though well known to people of the Isle of Man for some time past, it was announced on Monday that H..M.©; Mona's Queen (the 1.0.M. Steam Packet Company's crack paddle steamer) engaged and Fhnk a (Jermaii submarine on sth February, last. The vessel left that ■ day with'several hundred British solfliers on board, including the son of Mr Lloyd George,, jSho was escorted by a Britisn destroyer. Five miles from Havre a Hun submarine launched a torpedo, which, fortunately, missod its mark. Capt. Came, of the Mona's (^ueen, •immediately rang down to the engine-room' the order "full steam ahead." A moment later tnei-i> was a : .ti-oinendous din. The steamer's pacTdle-wheels were overridir.w the , -submarine. The latter took a quick' list to port, and going down by the head, suddenly disappeared. As the soldiers saw the O-boat sinking they raised a hearty British f-bee-. ■ Nearly all the present crew and engineem of the Mona's Quoon are Manxmen. ■ Some idea of tli« damage done to the. L-boat may bo imagined from the I ad/ that each of the Mona's Queen paddle-wheel!:' weighs fifty tons, while ■each separate float is over a ton in ■weight.

A iripfcion was-, pas.n-d at a special meeting of the executive of the Federated Seamen's Union of Newi Zealand, held at Wellington, deploring the inhviinsn -.lct=t i action of lif«

by commanders and crews of German U-boats, and directing that the union be represented at a world conference at London to .deal with this aspect of the international conflict. Mr Havelock Wilson, general president of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union, wiJl be cabled-to asking him to select a representative from a New Zealand ship or otherwise.