Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1919 — HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE

Captain Carpenter of H. M. S. VindictiVte arrived in New York recently. He Is the captain of the proudest if not the most prepossessing ship In the British navy. It was the Vindictive that took the* leading part the most thrilling assault of the war. the object of which was to bottle up the German submarine and destroyer posts In Zeebrugge. Observations made after the raid proved how In Captain Carpenter’s words, they gave the dragon’B tail “a damn good twist.” After the successful raid t£e Vindictive returned to port, her funnels riddled with bullets, her bridge blown away and battered and scarred in a dozen places. - . ;; '"r-