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Show HERO OF ZEEBRUGGE Km ilk PS ' ' m fife' - ; : y Captain Carpenter of H. M. S. Vindictive arrived in New York recently. re-cently. He is the captain of the proudest proud-est if not the most prepossessing ship n the British navy. It was the Vindictive Vin-dictive that took the leading part i 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's tail "a damn good twist." After the successful raid the Vindictive returned to port, her funnels fun-nels riddled with bullets, her bridge blown away and battered and scarred in a dozen places. |