Captain Charles Fryatt British Merchant Marine

[paul guthrie]

In 1915 he tried unsuccessfully to ram a submarine. His ship was SS Brussels. 3 months later the ship was captured and he was shot as a franc tireur. U boats could kill civilians but civilians could not kill U boats.

[BeppoSapone]

Do a search John. We have discussed him before.

[Bob Coulson]

He was also featured on Ian Hyslops series on TV.

Bob.

[Marco]

Or the other way around? U-boots warned vessels they were going to be sunk until vessels started to try ramming surfaced U-boots. Ramming done by secret order of Winston Churchill it was alleged in a doc I saw recently. If such attempt was ever done on my U-boot I would know what I would do the next time.

The only reason Fryatt could do his attempt is because the U-boot made it presence known and gave time to abandon ship. From a PR viewpoint capture and imprisonment would have been better though.

Regards,

Marco