NETTING SUBMARINES.
A GOOD HAUL.
It was common talk in the lobby of the House of Commons a few weeks ago that a couple of submarines. attempting to repeat the partial success of a comrade who had run the gauntlet of the destroyers guarding the entrance to the Channel off Dover Straits had been run down and sunk. A West County'member, speaking from local information, told a striking story of a diver in Admiralty employ. Report being made of the entanglement of a submarine in one of the nets prepared at likely points of the coast for the reception of piratical foreign visitors, the diver was sent down to report on its condition and the probability of floating it for use in now service. Returning after a brief survey, he inquired of the port captain, “Which will you have up first, sir? There are throe of ’em.” Not bad this for a night's haul.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1691, 27 March 1917, Page 4
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154NETTING SUBMARINES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1691, 27 March 1917, Page 4
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