TANKER SANK A SUBMARINE.
SAN ■ FRA-NpISGO, April 9. : fr The simking by ..the British tank steamer Sequoia of a German isubmarine duving a fight off the Cornish coast was revealed .to-day, following the arrival of the Sequoia m iSan Francisco. 4 the submarine was destroyed . after a 20-minute battle, during which one man oil the Sequoia was killed, three were wounded and the , bridge .and steamer's whelhouso wers carried away by the submarine's shell fire. Finally a shell from the Sequoia strucq the diver, which sank immediately amid a burst of flame and smoks. ...
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 5
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94TANKER SANK A SUBMARINE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14287, 2 May 1917, Page 5
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