MOORING MISHAP
U-BOAT ON THAMES RIVER LONDON, May 22. An ocean-going U-boat, U 776, which is the first to sail up the Thames, toppled over on its side at its moorings at Westminster Pier alongside the Houses of Parliament this evening. When the tide went down the hawser broke and the vessel, after settling at an acute angle, drifted some yards before Port of London Authority men secured her. The picked crew was unharmed, and the men came ashore by improvised landing board. Great crowds watched the U-boat, which is 220 feet long, come up the Thames. Merchantmen lying in the Pool of London hooted derisive cock-a-doodle-doo’s on sirens as the U-boat passed. It will be thrown open for public inspection.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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