The following week U 89, further to the westward, though on a course that would intercept vessels bound for the North Channel, was hanging about. Again it was dusk. Another convoy approached, escorted By H.M.S. Roxburgh (an armoured cruiser), at eight knots. The weather had been foggy, but ten minutes earlier it had cleared.
Suddenly Lieut.-Cmdr. A. R. Smith-wick, R.N., officer of the watch on Roxburgh's bridge, sighted U 89 lying on the surface 150 yards off, Without wasting a moment he wheeled to starboard, then steadied his shi" and went straight for the enemy The cruiser's 10,850 tons crashed into the submarine's 1,000 tons like a train into a motor-car. Something flashed and exploded, and one part of the submarine floated along the port side of the cruiser before sinking, while two pieces of metal were afterwards found on her stem.
The enemy now sent their star turn. Lieut.-Cmdr. Spiess, to see what he couldrdo with his successful U 19.
On March 1 the Calgarian, esca ing ships, was coming in from the Atlantic heading towards the North Channel at about eight, to ten knots. We had been met by destroyers, and as it seemed that a valuable armed merchant cruiser of 17,515 tons steam-
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