AS A WARNING
DEPTH CHARGE DROPPED BY U.S.A. DESTROYER. APPROACHING SUBMARINE DEPARTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 12. A Senator informed the United Press of America that Colonel Knox told the Senate Naval Affairs committee that an American destroyer on Atlantic paired dropped a depth charge some time ago merely as a warning to an approaching submarine. The patrol vessel was picking up survivors from a British ship when it heard the submarine through detectors. The vibrations ceased a few minutes after the charge was dropped. The destroyer feared the submarine would release a torpedo. Colonel Knox assured the committee that the depth charge would be ineffective beyond 100 feet and that the submarine was more distant than that.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5
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119AS A WARNING Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5
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