Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-05
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ABOARD H. M. s. VINDlCTlVE IN DOVER. HARBOR, May A cores pondent of The Associated Press wis. ited the cruiser Vindictive today as the guest of Captain Alfred F. B. Car. penter. who commanded her in the expedition last Tuesday against the German submarine base at Zeebrug- gee on the Belgian coast.
 Captain Carpenter received the cor respondent with his arm in a sling from a shell splinter wound. The ship showed inumerable signs of conflict. The commander, during the attack, was at the end of the bridge in a small steel box or cabin which had been especially constructed to house flame thrower. Captain Carpenter. in his account of the part taken by the Vindictive in the raid, said 10 The Associated Press:
 "Our chief purpose in the eXpedi- ton was to distract the attention of the battery while the block ships ran in especially the battery of II inch guns which occupied a commanding position at the tip of the mole. Our ship was elaborately prepared for the business of landing soldiers on the mole which was of stone forty feet high and fifteen feet above the Vim dictive's top deck at the state of the tide when the attack tcok place.
 Followed Out Plans
 We had a special superstructure over the upper deck and three long gang ways of 'brows' which were des- ignated to take the men up to the level of the mole as soon as we got alongside. Exactly according to the plans, we ran alongside the mole, ap- preaching it on the port side where we were equipped with specially built buffers of wood two feet wide.
 ''As there was nothing for us to tie up to we merely dropped anchor there while the Daffodil kept us against the mole with her nose against the opposite side of our ship. In the fairly heavy sea two of our three gangways were smashed but the third held and five hundred men swarmed up this onto the mole This gangway was two feet wide and thirty feet long
 "The men who went up it included three hundred marines and one hun dred and fifty storming seamen from the Vindictive and fifty or so from the Daffodil They swarmed up the steel gangway carrying hand gren- ades and Lewis guns. No Germans succeeded in approaching the gang way, but a hard hand to hand fight took place about 200 yards up the mole toward the shore
 hour r,-oe Y,nipfad toward the shore so the bridge got the full effect of enemy fire from the shore batteries. One shell exploded against the pilot house, killing nearly all of its ten occupants. Another burst in the fighting top, killing a lieutenant and eight men who were doing excellent work with two pom poms and four machine guns.
 Batteries DiIigent
 'The battery of 11-inch guns at the end of the mole was only 300 yards away and it kept trying to reach us. The shore batteries also were diligent Only a few German shells hit our hull because it was well protected by the wall of the mole, but the upper struc- ture, masts, stacks and ventilators showed above the wall and were rid dled. A considerable portion of our casualties were caused by splinters from these upper works.
 Meanwhile, the Daffodil continued to push us against the wall as if mol battle was on and if the Daffodil had failed to do this none of the members of the landing party would have been ablp fO rpfurn tO the shin
 Twenty-Five minutes after the Vim dictive had reached the wall the first block ship passed in and headed for the canal. Two others followed in leisurely fashion while We kept up the fight on the mole. One of the block ships stranded outside of the ] canal, but the two others got two or three hundred yards inside where ! they were successfully sunk across the entrance.
 "One difficulty we had in preparing