14 Aug 1917 // Q-ship HMS Prize (ex German schooner Else) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.48 in the Western Atlantic with all 27 crew lost. The painting, c1922 by Charles Dixon, shows the earlier sinking of U.93 by HMS Prize, 30 April 1917. (National Maritime Museum)
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Charles Dixon, 'The Q ship, HM Schooner Prize, engaged with the German submarine U93, 30th April 1918' (c1922). The date should be 30 April 1917. HMS Prize was sunk a few months after this event, on 14 August 1917. Royal Maritime Museums, Greenwich: public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. A painting of a three-masted sailing ship at sea with a submarine exploding and heeling over off her port side, on the right of the image. On the left foreground a group of men can be seen in a small boat, cheering.