Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 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 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 z raid proved how in Captain Carpenter’s words, they gave the dragon’s tail “a damn good twist.” After the successful raid the Vindictive returned to port, her funnels riddled with bullets, hfe bridge blown away and battered and sehrreJ In a dozen places.