SEA CAPTAIN’S STORY
SHIP SHELLED & SUNK BY SUBMARINE CREW RESCUED BY FLYING BOATS. “DID NOT DREAM THEY WOULD COME DOWN.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, September 22. Captain J. Schofield, master of the Kensington Court, said a submarine, without warning shell his vessel, which was bound for Birkenhead with Argentina wheat. He sighted the submarine and ordered full steam ahead, and sent out an S.O.S. “The submarine continued firing,” he related. “The shells each came nearer until I decided that I must save the crew and ordered the boats to be lowered. Shells fell close on either side of the ship as we were abandoning her. Half an hour later we saw the planes. We did not dream they would come down, and we were astonished and delighted when we saw two alight. The crew were ferried, two or three at a time, to the flying-boats in the latter’s emergency rubber dinghies.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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156SEA CAPTAIN’S STORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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