Show I Imprisoned in IH Sub Play I. I Cards as Rescuers Work Wark I I I Service len Staff Correspondence London Jan 4 Many lan Many people heard the tile whisper during tho the war of the tragedy of or Gall Gair Loch of ot the submarIne submarine submarine sub sub- marine that dived and would not come como up again It was only this week eek however however however how how- ever that one of or those concerned told the sto story of it Ii h seven fifty hours' hours Imprisonment of ot thO those ft two forty ll living liv 11 ing men with twenty nine corpses corpse shut up in a compartment that leaked next to them The submarine submarino was on trial In tho the Firth of ot Clyde and opposite Shandon in tn Gair Loch she dl dived Something went wrong Water poured her af after at- at Iter ter compartment and she went to the tho bottom her stern tern in fifteen fathoms of ot water and her bows higher in cl ven fathoms The rho alarm was given a a. salvage plant was a rushed up tip Divers went down own and tapped along the tho hull huH Aft ACt there was no reply There could be none for Cor tho staff there there practIcally practically all en engine lne room ratings and engineering e experts experts were drowned by the inrush It was stopped from filling tilling the forward end by the tha watertight door bel between the control room and the tho engine room Forward the divers' divers tapping was answered an an- b by taps lap on the hull huH of ot a sunken ship is unsatisfactory however and communication could not be kept up tip Time had passed It was thirty hours since she went down and tho the two forty began to wonder Commander br Goodhart volunteered to tobe tobe tobe be shot ahot out of or th the conning tower with 1 compressed air all in the tha hope of or establishing establishing lishing communication Unfortunately tel there thore was no air all gauge In the conning tower too much pressure was as used and he was shot hot up with great force against I the beams and killed The commanding officer of or tho sunken sunk sunk- en submarine was in the tho conning lower tove helping him and ho he was forced out b by the pre pressure sure against his Intention and andI ho reached the tho surface safely Thero There was a tube tuba in the tho submarine submarino I leading from tho Interior up tip to tho the deck b by the tor forward artl gun called an ammunition hand UP It was closed on oIl the outside by a nine-Inch nine brass bras screw cap A diver unscrewed that took toole It up tip to the salvage ship where a three- three inch hofe 19 s bored in It Il and nd a D. flexible blo ble copper hose hoso passed through Down went tho ho he diver paying out hose hoso as he lie went and screwed creed cre ed the tho cap on again Then an underwater lamp Jamp was sent down and fastened to one of ot tho periscopes pen peri scopes so that it Into tho control room and aad thus a mc message was flashed down to tho the prisoners to open tho watertight wa wa- wa- wa tl tight ten ht flap inside tho the Inner hull huH and pick up tho the length of oC tubing Thc They did and through that tube they were fed red after a jet of air had been gently forced through it t to freshen up tho the atmosphere in their prison When they were fed they were told by voice down the pipe what was being done dono for tor them and they said they were all right Is Js there anything you ou want they were ere asked Well Vell you might send down a 3 pack or of cards dards was tho the unexpected reply A Apack Apack pack Prick was found and passed down Meanwhile divers were fastening ropes round tho the bows Two Jwo days daVs a s had passed since she he went wont down Night and day the tho salvage people tolled toiled rigging rigging rig rig- ging Ing up purchases on the tha lifting ships and at last a little at a time they hauled her up tip on th the water It was late at night nn and 1 tho the blue flare of tho oxyacetylene cutting plant with which a hole w was W cut b by the tired but willing workers glowed slowed fler fiercely ely All AU the arc lamps of the tho salvage craft and tugs were on at full tull and alongside the peepIng peepIng peep- peep Ing bows was a launch ready for tor tho the rescued men As soon aa as tho bob hole was big enough salvage men mon Jumped down Inside and helped tho the prisoners out |