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52289: Newspaper cuttings detailing the 'Skipper Dupes a German U-Boat', and 'Pittenweem and St Monance Boats Sunk by Submarine'

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My Fife grandfather and four of his sons were fishing in the North Sea near Shields when his vessel was stopped by a German submarine. The story tell how German officers threatened to shoot him if he failed to give correct information.

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5850.doc| GWA_4142_SKIPPER_DUPES_A_GERMAN_U-BOAT.doc|

Subject

Watson, Alex

Date

July 1916

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1919

Source

Multiple

Medium

Text: Transcription

Type

Publication

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Margaret Murray

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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