SHARKS EAT U-BOAT VICTIMS.
SUN LOOKS ON. Reuter states that when the steamer Mariston, a Glasgow vessel of 2908 ton 3, was torpedoed on July 15, the first explosion awoke the cook, who, picking up a hatch, jumped overboard. After the ship had disappeared he counted 17 of the crew clinging to wreckage. At that moment the submarine came to the surface in the midst of her struggling victims, the while an officer stood looking through his binoculars for several minutes at the men. Ho ignored all appeals for assistance. Then one of the drowning men disappeared with a piercing scream, and a moment plater another vanished. The horror of the situation had been enhanced by the arrival of a school of sharks One by one all these brave men suffered » horrible death, The scone was too much even for the U-boat commander, for he closed tho trapdoor of the conning-tower and submerged, Fifteen hours later the soli survivor of the Mariston was rescued by la British its&nar.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1917, Page 5
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