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"The christening was done by Mrs. Guy Emerson, who banged the snout of the submarine with a bottle of champagne and renamed it the "U-Buy-A-Bond." There were some who said the submarine backed up and said "I won't," but it didn't matter anyway, for three men had already dashed into the craft's interior and gained tho honor of being the first to subscribe in a former German ship." The sun., October 26, 1917, Page 3, col 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1917-10-26/ed-...

The husband of Mrs. Emerson (likely the man behind her) was at that time vice president of the National Bank of Commerce and secretary of the Liberty Loan Committee, s. photo in the Evening star., October 19, 1917, Page 19 (he is the man standing on the right) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1917-10-19/ed-... and the NYT, June 10, 1917 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401E1DE133BEE...

She was Margaret Sigourney Emerson, born 1992, her husband Guy Emerson was born in 1886 and died in 1969 www.geni.com/people/Margaret-Emerson/6000000025822128817 www.geni.com/people/Guy-Emerson/6000000027541137270

Thanks B-59 for the more complete story of this event and the people depicted in it. We will add more details when we update.

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swanq: Thank you for making the connection between these 2 photos of the captured German U-Boat. We will add this information to the descriptions.

I wonder what those 3 long things are in the background there on the left.

The Sunday Oregonian July 22, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Image 59 printed this photo with the caption: "The Germans have asserted that the stories told by the British of captured submarines are exaggerated. Many are being captured, however, some of them minelayers. They are probably taken In nets which the British spread for submarines, but as to this fact the au thorities are silent." oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1917-07-22/ed-1/se...

B-59 Thanks B-59, but still has me wondering what those three things are. What a great history resource that oregonnews is! They look almost like giant straps or searchlights but I don't think it's either of those.

Galilla S The stripes are perhaps a developing failure, but they are not really explainable to me. The UC5 has a wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UC-5 The submarine was captured in April 1916 already, after it had run aground. See also - www.harwichanddovercourt.com/uc5-capture.html - nygeschichte.blogspot.com/2009/10/german-submarine-im-cen... (in German) - www.navsource.org/archives/08/08465.htm

The same photo was published in the New-York tribune., July 15, 1917, Page 8, Image 50, without the stripes chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1917-07-15/ed-...