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UNARAIED AMERICAN SHIP SINKS U-BOAT RAIDER SUDDENLY RAMMED I ON SURFACING. AFTER MISSING WITH TORPEDO. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) NEW ORLEANS, March 26. Netvy officials disclosed how an unarmed freighter sank a Nazi submarine by swiftly manoeuvring. The submarine surfaced and fired a torpedo, which missed. Expecting an easy victim, the submarine did not dive and was therefore helpless when the freighter swung round, suddenly ramming the U-boat. The German sailors on the deck oi, the submarine screamed as they floundered in the water. Almost instantly, there was a loud explosion astern, which the captain said “darn near stood the freighter on end.” The explosion did not injure the freighter, but the collision smashed her prow and the forward hold took in water. At daylight a United States destroyer came alongside.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1942, Page 4
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136SWIFT ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1942, Page 4
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