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Show CAPTAIN OF THE ALGONQUIN HAS NARROW ESCAPE PLYMOUTH, via London, March 14, S:20 p. m. Captain A. Nordberg of the American Amer-ican steamer Algonquin, which was torpedoed tor-pedoed by a German submarine on March 1 2. is now at Penzance. He will arrive with his crew in Plymouth tomorrow morning. Tn an interview Captain Nordberg Nord-berg said that the Algonquin was bound from New York for London with foodstuffs. food-stuffs. "On Monday morning. he said, "just after daylight I was on the bridge. It i was the mate's watch. I saw two steamers, steam-ers, apparently colliers, steaming west, one on the starboard and the other on the 1 port side. Two minutes later the mate called my attention to another object and at once I 6aid, 'I think that is a sub- j marine.' ! "The submarine was about three miles ! distant, as were also the steamers. Im-! Im-! mediately I saw a flash of a gun and a j shell fell short. At once I stopped the engines en-gines and then went full speed astern, indicating in-dicating th-is by three blasts of the whistle. ' The submarine kept on firing, the fourth shot throwing a column of water up which drenched me and the man at the wheel. It was a close thing. "The fifth shot struck the ship's side and the next went aft. The submarine was using two guns. Twenty shots were fired at us. I ordered the crew to the I boats and we pulled away two ship's lengths. All this time the submarine was firing at us; some of (lie shots came very clo?e. "Once we were in the boats the Ger-mans Ger-mans ceased firing and the suhruarine di ed. Later we saw the periscope, whlrh circled the Alconquin half a dozen times. Then, finding lur abandoned, the submarine came to the surface and ooarded the sfftmfr. 'Th ft rst thins: nn -,-r- . p t n ntvr ( ' American flag. Then I concluded they were going to sink my ship. Ten minutes min-utes after I heard the crackle of an explosion ex-plosion and saw smoke. They had blown the ship up with bombs. In fifteen minutes min-utes the Algonquin had sunk. "The submarine was flying the German ensign. Her commander asUed my name, nationality, destination and cargo of the ship, which had the American colors painted on her sdde and flew the American Ameri-can flag day and night. I ashed him to tow us toward land, but he refused, saying, say-ing, 'I'm too busy; I expect a couple of other steamers.' "The weather was fine and the seas smooth. After being twenty-seven hours in the boats we reached Scilly, without seeing any vessel of any kind." |