TRAWLER SHELLED
ONE MAN KILLED^ TWO INJURED \y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigu(Received July 13, 1 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. A submarine shelled the trawler Fleetwood, which was fishing in the North Sea on Sunday. The second shell exploded at the stern, wrecking the trawler’s lifeboat. The crew were helpless under continued shell-fire. Ai deck hand was killed and the engineer and captain’s son severely wounded. The submarine came closer, the commander shaking his fist, and apparently preparing a torpedo. The fishermen held up their bleeding shipmates, and tho Germans desisted and departed. The Fleetwood was crippled. She reached Grimsby
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9094, 13 July 1915, Page 6
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97TRAWLER SHELLED New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9094, 13 July 1915, Page 6
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