SAILOR'S FINE RECORD
MAN WHO FOUGHT U-BOATS A Weurside shipmaster, Captain Frederick Maude Milling, of Sunderland. who avenged the death of Lord Kitchener by sinking the submarine which helped to lay the mines for H.M.S. Hampshire, has died at the age of 70 years. Captain Maling was master of the Nautilus steamer Palm Branch when he sank U-boat 75. The Palm Branch, laden with ammunition and high explosives for North Russia, was zigzagging her way to the Kola inlet when tho periscope of a submarine was sighted 60 'yards away. A torpedo passed under the Palm Branch, but as the submarine rose the steamer's guns opened fire, and after two direct hits the U-boat disappeared. Almost immediately a second submarine! appeared, and in spite of the fact that the Palm Branch was at a disadvantage, the steamer attacked so effectively that tho submarine's aftergun was put out of action, and the U-boat then made for t|ie open sea. Captain Milling was awarded his D.S.O. earlier in the war, when ho outmanoeuvred a submarine in tho English Channel.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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177SAILOR'S FINE RECORD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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