U-BOAT MOORED IN THAMES
Submarine Topples Over On Side (Rec. 8 p.m.) 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 House of Parliament this evening. When the tide went down the hawser broke and the vessel, after settling at an ’ acute angle, drifted several yards before Port of London Authority men secured her. The picked crew, was unharmed. They came ashore by an improvised landing board. Great crowds watched the Üboat, which is 220 feet long, come up the Thames. Merchantment lying in the Pool of London hooted a derisive cock-a-doodle-doo on sirens as the U-boat passed. It will be thrown open for a public inspection.
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Southland Times, Issue 25680, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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