FIGHT WITH SUBMARINE.
FRENCH SAILING VESSEL. A. and N.Z. PARIS, Oct. 12. The French sailing vessel Blanche fought a submarine for 2| hours, and was finally torpedoed. The explosion killed the captain and many of the crew. A patrol boat picked up 15 survivors. The Blanche was a French four-masted steel barque of 3104 tons, built at Havre in 1899. Before bang named Blanche she was known as the Sainte-Marguerite, also as the Emilio Siegfried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16670, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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