VALIANT SEAMEN
AWARDS IN GREAT BRITAIN. FIGHT WITH SUBMARINE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. December 2. Among live recipients of the 0.8. E. is Captain White, who commanded the Stonepool in tlie first straight fight in tiiis war between a defensively-armed merchantman and a U-boat. On sighting the U-boat the Stonepool manned her gun in about two minutes and exchanged shot for shot with the enemy with guns of similar calibre at a fair rate of fire. The shooting was good and the fifteenth shot may well have hit or damaged tlie U-boat, whose thirteenth or fourteenth shot holed the Stonepool two feet above the waterline. Captain White, by his resolute and skilful action saved his ship. AbleSeaman Hayter. of the Stonepool, was also awarded the 0.8. E.. and the report accompanying the issue of tlie award says the discipline was excellent and tlie gunlayers and the gun's crew did well.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 5
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150VALIANT SEAMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1939, Page 5
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