The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Smelling of the Second u
Boat After One Was
Rammed Now Disclosed
FIGHT CHEElRED
BY 1000 SOLDIERS
Americans on Deck Saw Double Killing
Destroyer Saved Four Officers and
Twenty Seven Of the Crew of Sub
Which was Rammed.

AN ATLANTIC PORT, June l0-The
British transport which was reported on
May 20 to have rammed and sunk Ger
man submarine on the other side arrived
here Saturday with her stem twisted by
the collision She was in dry dock at
British port to have her hull inspected
| for any damage that might have been
done-when she cut through the Z boat and
sent every member of the crew to the
bottom of the sea.
| The first report stated that eighteen sur
vivors had been rescued from the U7boat
after she sank This was corrected by
officers and crew, who We're on deck at the
time, and were witnesses of the incident
with 1000 or more. American soldiers
standing on the deck beside them. They
said the transport destroyed two submar
ines that morning, which was on Sunday
4 just at dawn the scaptain was on tht
bridge with the chief officer, as great eau
tion had to be used in navigating min,
field. Suddenly out of the haze which
hung over the watersthe chief officer saw
a big U-boat we'll above the surface ant
said to the Captain. sWhat shall we do
sirg' and the commander, without a sec
ond's hesitation. replied ''Sink her
The U-boat was about two points t,
starboard at that moment, and Instant,
the big liner swung over and she .crashe,
through the thin steel hull of the submar
inc. Almost at the same moment tn
, | lockout man in the upper crows mes
, shouted: Submarine on the port quarter
| sir
II A short distance away in the haze Their
, 1 appeared another U-boat, which had al
parently been IL. company with the othe
J one, lying in wait for the American trans
ports. Bang! went the six-inch gun o
the port quarter, and a ll0,pound explo
sive shell strnck the submarine SQUARED
amidships and sank Der.
The American soldiers on deck forwar
cheared at the .ramming OF the submarir
= and were joined by their mates who wei
standing aft WHEN the second one W:
a sunk as8 f-
! The haze was thicker, astarn. of the tran
. port than ii was ahead, and this Ind =
4 American destroyer from view as she Il
! hove to waiting while temporary repai
: were being executed in the engine roor
a The wareraft was only mile away fro
Is the transport when the U-boat was shell,
It and as the submarine went down those
!. the German crew who had been able
lie scramble on deck jumped into the waite
10 The commander of the destroyer saw the
IF drifting toward his ship and had Iii
lie boat lowered which picked up four OF
n. GERS and q of the crew Search was ma
re to see if there were survivors from t
err submarine that had been rammed by {
IN transport, but no trace of her crew con
fe be found
MS 1t was said that this was the first tir
I'D that any merchant vessel or auxilia
in cruiser or transport had sunk two ST
marines at the same time since the beg
ly ming of the U-boat warfare in the eal
er part of 1916 For ramming one. submari
lie the captain of the transport who had be
in, well known in Atlantic shipping erc
to for the last twenty years will receive
ut 600 from the British government and
he viii get an additional prize for the seeo
one
vel The double killing caused great excl
'as ment among the American soldiers
lat hoard, who were on their way to
me front Only limited number could be
lai deck at once, and the remainder had
'as get the news from them when they
'as luctantly went below to breakfast
lhe Those who saw the two U-boats at cl
10 range said they were at least $50 feet 10
or of 81 feet beam, and about feet Fl
). board Although the stem of the ira
!, port cut Though the hull of the subm
,,ei inc az if it had been cardboard, the sh
was felt all Over the ship.