HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 145, 19 May 1930, Page 2

HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE.

STIRRING DEEDS RECALLED. Captain J. Howell-Price, R.A.N.R., who has ben convalescing in Sydney after a four months’ illness, is modest about his achievements. They are associated, however, with some the most stirring exploits of the British Navy during tho war. Captain Howell-Price, whilst serving in the Royal Naval Reserve as a lieutenant, was second in command of the Submarine C 3, which was blown up under the viaduct of the mole at Zeebrugge in. 1918, in order to prevent the intervention of German troops whilst H.ALS. Vindictive blocked the canal. The crew escaped in a small motor launch under intensive fire from machine guns at close range. For his part in that manoeuvre Captain Howell-Price was awarded the D.S.O. He had already been decorated with the D.S.C., in February, 1916, when he was one of the officers of the Alcantara, of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, under Commander Wardell, which sank the German raider Grief in the North Sea. In 1919 Captain Howell-Price transferred to the Australian Navy, and commanded the submarine J 3 until 1921, when the vessel was placed out of commission and sunk. He then retired, and later joined the Federal Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. As a master in that company’s service he has since been engaged in the Australian and New Zealand trade. Ho was in command of the Somerset until January of this year, when, three days out from Panama, en route to Australian ports, he became very ill, and was landed into St. Vincent’s Hospital on January 21, remaining there ever since. He recently left Sydney for London to report again for duty.