| Show GUNBOAT HIT SUBMARINE BY Submarine Bonita Arises Sud Suddenly Suddenly Suddenly denly Below Other Vessel and Puts It Out of Commis Commission Commission Commission sion in but a Short Time DAMAGED BOAT STARTS FULL SPEED FOR SHORE 1 Submarines Were Supposed to toBe toBe toBe Be Far Out in the Bay at Time the Accident Happened to the Gunboat Castine ENGAGED IN MANEUVERS n July 11 ii P Y The tn flagship of the submarine flotilla which wn was rammed It I the he submarine during the Che maneuvers maneuver to today wn JUt benched to prevent her sinking IVo No o one on board was n Injured Two T of the Che of or the Che Casline were ere loon cued tier Her dynamo and parts nrC of or her boiler compartment are nrc flooded loo hut but the Chr thel I l bulkheads In are said Mild to Co he lie holding firm The accident occurred during a mimic 1 attack i tack On the amine Castine by the submarines rifles rines the Bonita apparently miscalculating I lating the distance dl and striking the gunboat with considerable force torce The Themen Th Themen men on both boats boat felt relt the Impact and some were momentarily stunned but no noone noone noone one was injured The Bonita escaped e with tho the slight denting of a portion of or her armor and the loss 10 of or a small man sec HO section section tion of her railing i As Aa soon oon as it was seen how badly the 1 Castine Ca Une was damaged it was decided to beach her near North Truro She will willbe willbe willbe be thoroughly examined tomorrow and preparations preparation will be made for tor repairing the damage Will In Not Accident The officers of o the ship In collision win will not discuss the t accident The attack OB on the was waa unexpected Several Seral members of o the crew were In swimming when the Jonita Bonita B BudI rose ro e beneath the gun boat and as she came up p scrap scraped her whole length across the bottom of DC th the Castles Water Into the tile lower dower low tit en engine engine englee gine glee room and tho dynamo room oom of 01 the Ute them hem and threatening to extinguish the fires ires under tinder the boilers The doors door of or orthe the watertight compartments cow were closed and the Castine Ca started full speed for shore She Site reached the beach under her own steam and rested easily In n shallow water All the crew re remained renamed named on board The Ca carried eighty eight men com oom commanded commanded by Lieutenant Ralph A Koch The Bonita was wag under command of En Ensign Ensign sign Sloan Danenhower and carried a crew of or fifteen rUteen men The Castine Is the tender Ie r the third submarine division di al division vision made up of or the submarines submarine Bonita Grayling Narwhal Snapper Stingray and amI Tarpon The Tho division commander Is le Lieutenant Donald C The boats boat came oame here some time ago from Charleston Charle ton to engage In submarine submarine submarine rine maneuvers the exact nature of which Is kept an official secret At Atthe Atthe 1 the time of the th accident today not a submarine was waa In sight and It was w supposed ed that they th were all ail out In th ba bay jay The others did not return until two or three hours after the Bonita had bad struck the Castles The Castine was w built In Bath Dath Me Ka Ie and was wa launched in liftS ISM She Sh Is II a twin screw steel ves vessel y ve sel ael of or 1177 tons displacement plAcement dl |
