The uncharted galaxy PGC 2998 -- puffs of smoke

The galaxy PGC 2998 has been photographed as part of the Digitized Sky Survey. Apart from this, no studies have been done of this solitary spiral which is located at a medium distance from us of about 200 Mpc. In a sparse patch of sky this galaxy appears to be ejecting blobs of matter at regular intervals. In the picture at right (3 arcmin on edge) object F would be (in this scenario) the first of the objects to have been ejected, followed at regular intervals by objects E, D, C, B, and A which appears still elongated from its recent ejection. There is also the hint of a thread of material between D and E.

However, object D is the QSO Q0048-2626. Is this superposition, or is it being lensed, or may there be a genuine connection? A big telescope's attention is needed to clarify what kind of busy galaxy PGC 2998 has been. The table below gives the details of the galaxy and its objects.
Objects around PGC 2998

Notes on columns:
Column (1) is distance from PGC 2998 in arcseconds.
Column (2) is the angle of the object from PGC 2998, N thru E.
Columns (3) & (4) are the red & blue optical magnitudes (recalibrated from APM/USNO).
If column (5) says 'p', then the optical magnitudes are POSSI, else they are UKST.
Column (6) gives photometric PSF class of the red & blue image respectively.
Key to values: '*'=stellar, '1'=fuzzy, '2'=extended, 'n'=none, 'x'=missing

dist angle Rmag Bmag if POSSI photometry coordinates ID if known
0 - 13.6 15.9 p 1 1 00h51m18.7s-26d10m05s GAL PGC 2998
13 274 20.6 - _ * x 00h51m17.7s-26d10m03s A
22 233 18.3 21.1 p 1 1 00h51m17.4s-26d10m17s B
33 155 19.1 21.0 p 1 1 00h51m19.7s-26d10m34s _
35 243 18.9 20.3 p 1 * 00h51m16.4s-26d10m20s C
46 242 19.0 19.4 p * * 00h51m15.7s-26d10m26s D QSO Q0048-2626
47 183 13.6 15.8 p * * 00h51m18.5s-26d10m51s star
66 265 20.7 21.2 _ * * 00h51m13.8s-26d10m10s E
70 293 18.6 20.8 p 1 1 00h51m13.9s-26d09m37s _
77 261 19.8 21.0 _ 1 * 00h51m13.1s-26d10m16s F
86 171 20.7 21.4 _ * * 00h51m19.7s-26d11m29s _
91 333 20.1 20.8   * * 00h51m15.7s-26d08m43s _
92 348 20.7 - _ 1 x 00h51m17.3s-26d08m34s _
112 143 20.5 - _ * x 00h51m23.7s-26d11m34s _
115 226 18.9 21.0 _ 2 * 00h51m12.5s-26d11m24s _