SUBMARINE MINELAYER.
A NEAT CAPTURE.
GALLANT BRITISH OFFICER.
Received July 23, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 22. Submarine UCS will be shown at Temple Pier. She is only a small minelayer and worked from Zeebrugge. During four months in the spring she laid 240 mines. When captured, the crew jumped overboard to avoid their explosive bombs which an English officer gallantly extinguished.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16704, 24 July 1916, Page 5
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61SUBMARINE MINELAYER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16704, 24 July 1916, Page 5
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