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Show SUBMMI CHASER SAFELYJN EUROPE Announcement of Arrival Is Formally Made by the War Department, WASHINGTON". Feb. Sate arrival til h Kuwnean port of a ll'-foot submarine subma-rine chaser, with a French crew aboard, which had not been heard from since January h", was announced today by the navy department. The little craft was separated from her escort, daring a terrific ter-rific i;ale while bound for Kurope. No uavtatitr instruments were aboard, but after beha: blown fur off their course, the Frenchmen estimated their position and headed for port. To their remarkable seamanship is attributed attrib-uted the success of t b o o a c . With the engines disabled by the storm, the crew rinsed tip sails from bed coverings and sailed for ihirty-niuo days. Sccreca'-y 1 hiuiels announced the news in this statement; I was delighted to receive a message mes-sage unlay tel1 in -4" of the anh a I in "poi t oi' an Am-'rican-built submarine 1 chaser, which became separated from I her escort in tho terrific sale of .'an- 1 iary t. ha I not been reported since j that time, and which we feared was I.ki. This w as one of the 1 ni-toot boiits which wo are turning over to the French tavern men t and was manned by a French crew. which saved tho erat't by a remarkable feat of na vii;at'ou. la tiie storm, which was one of the worst on record, the engines were disabled dis-abled and the boat left adrift far out Hi sea. The crew managed to riir iu a sail, made of bed co erit: is. and were able to make twe or three knots b e f r e t h e w ; ; : d . lh : e r o w ere no navigation instruments evcept a compass aboard and the crew hud to est i ma re thei r pos:: ions. They saded for thirty-nine days, i;oiu on siiort rations, and finally reacheii port. |