Claim: UC-70, badly damaged by a near miss by a 520 pounds (240 kg) bomb and finished off by the destroyer HMS Ouse, a Laird type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates, was spotted lying submerged on the sea bottom near Runswick Bay on 28 August 1918, by a Kangaroo flown by Lt E. F. Waring.
Evidence: HMS Ouse was a Laird type River-class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903 – 1904 Naval Estimates. UC-70, was spotted lying submerged on the sea bottom near Runswick Bay on 28 August 1918, by a Kangaroo flown by Lt E. F. Waring. The U-boat was badly damaged by a near miss by a 520 pounds (240 kg) bomb and finished off by the destroyer HMS Ouse.