IN AVENGING DESTROYER
(Special Correspondent.) (11.35 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 5. Two New Zealanders were in the destroyer which rammed the submarine which sank the aircraft-carrier Eagle while the latter was on convoy operations in the Alediterranean recently. They were Telegraphists A. E. Woods (Timaru) and A. S. Whiting (Mayfield). The destroyer, which was travelling at 28 knots, carried the submarine 30 yards on her bows before the submarine broke up. It was 1 a.m. and pitch dark, and there were no survivors. Whiting said: “I had just relieved Woods in the wireless telegraphy room when there came the order ‘Stand-by for a crash.’ Then about half a minute later there was a terrific crash, hut we carried on working. Woods said, ‘I am in a mess,’ and was flung against the bulkhead. I rushed on deck hut could not see or hear anything.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 263, 6 October 1942, Page 2
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