TROOPSHIP'S FIGHT
SUNK AFTER, TWO HOURS' SCRAP WITH TJ-BOA.T.
Survivors of the British troopship Armadale, torpedoed in the Atlantic on •Tune 27, describe her fight, lasting nearlv two hours, with the German. submßrino TJIS3, When she was first fired en tho Armadale kept on her course iinscathed. TFIS3 then hove in fight tore miles astern, and began Taming shots at the wireless aerials and tne bridge of tho Ajmadale. Tho gunners end firemen worked like Trojans. During th« whole fiijht the steamer's 12 knots was increased to 15. . After exchanging something like •» shote the Huns submerged. Late? tun Armadale was struck without warning, and the order to abandon sbp was given, the steamer being eventually sent to the bottom by shell-fire. In spite of tne fact that submarines were still in the ■icinity, the captain of a Cardiff steamer piuckilT bore, down among the snrvivor?. One boat load after another was γ-at safely in his .ship, 231 men being , tcs£S. A, already stated by the Admiralty, G roldiwe, 1 passenger, I Bnip.s officer, and 3 of tho crew were drowned..
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 23, 22 October 1917, Page 4
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180TROOPSHIP'S FIGHT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 23, 22 October 1917, Page 4
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