Template:Did you know nominations/Cedric Naylor
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 22:30, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
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Cedric Naylor
- ... that on Christmas Eve 1917 Lieutenant Cedric Naylor and some of his crew remained aboard their sinking ship so they could fire upon the submarine that torpedoed it? "On the 24 Decembe, 1917, PENSHURST was approaching the southern end of the Irish Sea, aiming to intercept a U-Boat operating off the Smalls. ten minutes after midday, she sighted a U-Boat 2 points off the port bow ... 1.31pm saw a German torpedo attack from 300 yards away ... the usual act of abandoning a merchant ship occurred, with the panic party getting into the last lifeboat and lift rafts ... Having settled by the stern, the stern gun could not be depressed enough to open fire on the submarine. Nonetheless, the gun crew took advantage of the pitching and rolling of the ship to fire six rounds on the enemy. The second round hit the submarine foreward on the starboard side of the deck, the forth hitting abaft of the conning tower ... PENSHURST sank at 8:05 pm. The crew were taken off" from: "U-boat encounter on Christmas Eve results in sinking of Q-ship Penshurst". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 8 April 2021 (UTC).
Just within the 7 days from creation to nomination! Copy vio is fine., QPQ done, long enough, interesting, inline citations in each paragraph of main text. Quetzal1964 (talk) 08:51, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
