Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1919 — HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE

Captain Carpenter of H. M. S. Vindictive arrived in New York recently. He is the captain of the proudest if not the most prepossessing ship fa the British navy. It was the Vindictive that took the leading part the most thrilling assault of the war. the object ofwhich was to bottle.wap the German submarine and destroyer posts kr Zeebrugge. Observations made after the raid proved how in Captain Carpenter’s words, they gave the dragon’s tall “a dpmn good twist.”* After the successful raid the Vindictive returned to port, her funnels riddled with bullets, her bridge blown away and battered and scarred In a dozen places. > -■