ACCIDENTAL STROKE
TRAWLER RAMS GERMAN SUBMARINE STOPPED WHILE RUNNING AT FULL SPEED. EVIDENCE OF DESTRUCTION OF U BOAT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. Mr Arthur Darwood, skipper of a trawler, related how he believed he accidentally rammed and sank a German submarine. The trawler sighted two British warships and a British aeroplane, circling over the warships signalled that there was a submarine, in the vicinity. Consequently the trawler went, full speed ahead. Suddenly there was a crash and the bows of the vessel rose high in the air. There came a second crash amidships a moment later and the trawler was partly thrust out of the water. A third crash followed, when the stern of the trawler seemed to be pulled down. The force of the impact was such that the trawler was brought to a standstill although hei- engines were going a't full speed. Looking astern, the crew saw the water boiling with air bubbles, ant a quantity of oil then rose to the surface. The trawler’s propeller was damaged and the vessel was leaking when she reached port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 7
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186ACCIDENTAL STROKE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 7
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