HUNS SINK A SAILING SHIP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7

HUNS SINK A SAILING SHIP.

GIRL’S SCORN FOB SUBMARINE MARKSMANSHIP. NIGHT IN OPEN BOATS. The full-rigged .sailing sliip Glenholm, of Liverpool, bound from Chili to Liverpool, with 3,500 tons of nitrate, lias been sunk by the gunfire from a .German submarine ten miles soutli-Avest of Berohaven, where The officers and crew of twenty-six wore landed.

On January 3 the Glenholm. sailed from Iquique, and crossed the line fifty-two days ago. She arrived off tho coast early in the week, but kept to sea hoping to make Queenstown for orders. She Avas hold up by a patrol ship, which gave tho Glenholm creAv a pound or tAvo of butter and bacon, and some potatoes, the sailing ship having long since run short of fresh provisions, and allowed her to proceed. After that ill-luck dogged her. She was becalmed for nine days, and then the submarine bove in sight and gave the signal, ‘‘Abandon your ship.” Then Glenholm Avas lying in smooth water; there Avas little Avind, and she had no chance of escaping. The captain’s daughter, Miss Campbell, was making tho long voyage Avith her father. Everybody hurriedly collected his belongings, got into the two lifeboats, and made off-, riardly were they clear of the ship Avhen the submarine commenced to shell her, but the marksmanship was, in the .words of an old French Canadian of seventy years, a sailinaker on hoard, enough to make him laugh if he '‘petered” out next moment.

'The sails avcko pierced, the masts splintered, the bowsprit struck, but the ship Avas not badly hurt till the, submarine Avas forced to come almost under her counter to finish her oilIn all, thirty-nine shots Avere fired to sink her.-

Captain Campbell and members of the crew of the Glenholm state that the. submarine officers leaned oA-er tho conning tower, peeping at tho boat through telescopes, smoking cigarettes and laughing as if they heartily enjoyed the crow's plight. They made no effort to tow the boats, and as the crew Aval ted to see the last of their ship the submarine gunner fired a shot just over tneir heads to frighten them off. For hours the boats roved about without food or Avater, and in the darkness, Avithout means of guidance, could not define the exact position of Berehaven. At last, they came across a schooner hound for Tralee, which supplied them with a loaf of bread, a bucket of Avater, and a. compass. At six o’clock this morning they reached Berehaven much" exhausted. Miss Campbell, a pretty girl of seventeen, soon recovered from the shock of her experience among congenial company at the hotel. Her only concern was For the care of a parrot and tAvo little singing birds she bad brought Avith her from South America. Thoy were the first to be rescued before the ship Avas abandoned. “Ob,” said Miss Campbell, “it Avas awful, and the night in the open boat Avas Avcird. The Germans laughed at us, too, but did not even speak or offer to toAv us. They Avere very bad shots and could not hit the poor old Glenholm without coining almost alongside her. 1 shall never forgetthe experience. Everybody has been very, very kind.”

•She left Avith Her father in the evening for Liverpool.