U-BOATS TREATED WITH CONTEMPT
Modest Merchantmen Most officers aud men of the Merchant Navy who have been torpedoed or attacked by enemy aircraft, when talking of their experiences, refer to their “accidents,” according to Captain W. H. Coombes, general secretary and founder of the Navigators’ and Engineer Officers’ Union, in an interview in London last month. > “I have not known of a single case,’ said Captain Coombes. “where an officer who has had his ship torpedoed or attacked from tlie air has not been anxious to get another ship and return to sea as quickly as possible.” The feeling toward German submarines and airmen who attacked innocent ships was one of resentment and almost contempt. Merchant officers were worried much more about British shipping and their own service after the war than about their present hardships and risks.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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138U-BOATS TREATED WITH CONTEMPT Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 189, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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