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Show Typical Experiences With Allied Convoys Are Related by Sims D;iriiv Attacks on Merchantmen by German Submarines Sub-marines and Methods Used by American and British War Vessels to Protect Shipping Described by United States Naval Commander. W ADMIRAL WILLIAM SOWDKN SIMS. ! r., t ho WorUVn Work. I 1 ' T . , ' r:-.ii: nf i j, ft l.-i-.-j in i i-wl j f'.fir;i :.i Li finviii i'i-.-tt' i-'l iiy 7'.-;irMt:.';: i ".lv"'ou n.'j .juot.iff'.'i m;;iv ni;:.'l--. 'ni- I s,,.,-l;ii :uv,s.lil,'.-l iMl t V.'lt.i t.if ! ! . i i V v :tu :'-.: - pf : ! i-;-LLt-. I j j ' 'X V' 'i I ,"' i .'i--; !;i tS..- stormy nil j j ' ;m:'I '.in;.-;' v:tt :'.". nwi'fl fun fis' i I : wl ra.u o;' fio A l lant V it ino.-ioiunoi:: nrd Jreary 00- ( ; h- i ; j j iu i !o:i. i.Tii;, u::" or t .vo ir."-l- . 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Vuoul lo ikt.s' fiiiilhm brought tho shipa 'ij th'-' point nt i iiii-li ti.r p-ol-t-'Tiiii; de-:-.r i ry i.T'i i-otiUI PtiiVly lruvo (hum to n-f n-f 1 1 nt titiOMrortod to A uii"-ri' m : fl:irknes;4 now t'o.i in, and. v.ndcr ivr, furur r'.io iik ;-. ;i n t mn slipptid iiwiiy j'roni tho ;uld;is and Ntartod w-st ward. MrRiitiniu d'st ruy.-r oscor: hud r-ctvvcil r-ctvvcil :l mcsiiuo from tne Cuml.'firiaiul, , ho :i-!tMi cruiser wliich w:is acthiN' ::s o'-fiiti f scorl ( o ("otn'o,' "US I t." '"Convoy '"Con-voy is r!x liour.s J : .t (.'." s'nc report intu-h Ilk" t'.io announce.: at. a railrufid Mla-tiori who hii'.-rniH tiu w;tithif? crowds r.i:u t'.itj ii'.cninin.i.;- train .is that, muci ov-.'fdut'. A'-'-'oivlin; to I'r.v .scVuhno thoo '-hil'S ,-ihi.nld i-faf.'i i'r.a aprjointnd render ren-der .'Oum r. t; o' i' lock t ho in. X' L morni nK ; Chid niov.'-a.'o o idouity nio -'d tiio tine or arri val up to noon. Tho dost royorrf. s'o'tii rinM,-n km that I hoy would not ar-r'vo ar-r'vo a'noad ol' tiiuo, stttrLfd for tho (lfelg- Merchantmen Admire ; Convoy Maneuvers. ! SonuM Iino. thh'k M'oaiher ruado :t ir.i- nov--3rn'r to fix t.io position by aslronovn-I'-al oi3u t--a "Ions, and t ho I'onvoy, iniph-ror iniph-ror he at Its ai-rointed roiulozrous. Kor i h.'s lvann tho destroyers now deployed o:t :t. north anJ tourh lino about twenty ru'.l-s lone; for sevoral Iiours. yoniew'ntt ho'ore tho npnolnU'd lime one or' tho de-.s;ro'ora de-.s;ro'ora siphtod a faluL cioud of smoke on the -u est orn horl.on. and .soon a fter-! fter-! Mivd thirty-two merchantmen, sailing1 in I calumny or fours, began to assume a def-1 def-1 ii:i!o untune-. At a Higual from this? destroyet. the otiior destroy ors of tho escort came in at 'nil npocd and ranged t hemsolvcR on , either side of tho convoy a maneuver ;Iiat always 0Ne:ted th ;-'dmiraiion of the norciiant jp.icry. This mig.ht eo'dec- , I linn oc vosMols. I'eeupyhig- uhoul ten or 1 twelve square miles on the ocean, maintaining main-taining it h formaLion so skilfully, was really w "oeauliful and inspiring sight. When the riost "over" had gained their tie.-iignated positions on c: ther side, the spltnio id ou valeade s;i iled boldly into r!:c area w hich formed t no favorite hunting grounds for t he submarine. As soon as this danger xone "U'ai" reached, the whole aggregation, destroy- and merchant Hhjns, began to -ignag. 'f'he commodore ou the fl airship hoisted rho signal, "Zig-jag A." and Instantaneously Instantane-ously tho whole thirty-two ships began j to turn twenty-five degrees to the rignt. I Thee ships, usually so cumbersomt', I made t lily simultaneous turn -with all the de.'tneps, and "cn wit'n ail the srace !' a Nchool of fish into v. hich one has sud- -I donly ca.-t a stone. Presence of U-Boat Always Assumed. AH the way across the At'.anr.c they had been praet Icing such an t-vo'.ut ion ; most of them had already sailed throng :t rho danger v.one more than once, so that uho maneuver was by this time at: old story. Km ten or fifteen minutes they mor ceded along this course, when hft-medlatcly, hft-medlatcly, like" one vessel, the convoy rurnoy t wenty degrees to 1 1 io left, and s'a-'tod in a direction. A nd so on for hours, now a few nv tint, ti-nt, es to tho left and now again straight .(head, while all the 1 1 mo t he destroyers were cu'tiuc through the water. c o:y t-ye of i he skilled k'okonis fixed upon the : rfa.ee lor t 'no first glimpse of a peri- ji-'OpO. , 1'h Is ?.;g7.ag us e,;: -ried oy.i aeoi-ding eompi'ehei'.si'.'c p'.ans which, enabled ;'-o eotnoy to zig.:ag for hours at a time j without signals, the courses and the time t ' r r-i i course hor,g de.V;; -lated ".a iar' .:'.;tr ulR't ordered, y'.l saliJ-.-;' cl-';k-J I hd(ig t-;"t exactly alike by tune signal. P'-ooaMy I have made I! clear vhy rh-.-.y lg;:;i L-ging e-.olutioiiS constitute 1 such a I All f;L Time tho convoy was nailing In rh- (ia.ng('i- z'r;': 't v;y s assu' ped ti'.aL a sunn, ar, ao w,m present, looking fur a chain1.; t'i t.orjjetj'0. Th.-f-ii t hiuph the o:f ieors might k?;--' w I ;ha.t. ! here v;:m no submarino v.:th hi J three bunar-d miles, tics was never taken 1 :'; graiitcd: t:ie dlsciliiio of tb.e whole .Mir. oy system rested upon the theory ; ha t tho sub marine was there, wait in? on ty tlie favorarde moment to start the work oi' des'.ru jtton. Vint a submarine, as alreany Maid, could not strike without 1 tie most thorough preparation, ft. must j get wit hln t hree or four hundred yards or the torpedo would stand tittle chance -:' hitting tho marie in a vital sput. Zigzagging Annuls ! Enemy Calculations. ' Tho commander almost ne r shot blindly into the convoy, on the chance of ' hitting some ship; he carefully selected his victim; ids ealeulation bad to include its speed, the speed of his own boat and t hat of hia torpedo; and above all. he .'.ad to be sure of tho direction in which his intended quarry was steaming; and in tii is calculation tho direction of the i n ereha ntmar. formed perhaps; the most important element. Cut if the ships were constantly changing their direction, it is apparent that the submarine could make no calculations which would have ruc-tlor-l value. In tho afternoon the Aubvietia, the V-lrttish mystery ship which was sailing thirty mil os ahead of the convoy reported re-ported i hat she had sighted a submarine., subma-rine., Two or three destroyers dashed for the indicated area, searched it thoroughly, thor-oughly, found r.o traces of the bidden boat, and returned to the convoy. The next morning six British destroyers and one cruiser arrived from Devonport. l,p j to this time the convoy bad been follow - tug the groat "trunk line"' which led into l the Channel, but it had now reached the 1 joint where The convoys split up. part yoing to ICnglish ports and pari to French. These British destroyers had eome to take over the twenty ships which were bound for their own country, while the American destroyers were assigned to escort the rest to Brest. The. following follow-ing conversation typical of those that were constau tly filling the air in that area now took place between the American Amer-ican flagship and the "British: Typical Conversation Between War '-Vessels. Oonyngham to Achates: This is the j C'oriy nghani. Commander Johnson. T would like to keep the convoy together until tots eenlng. I will work under vour orders until I leave with convoy for F.rest. Achates to Conynghatn : Please traTte vour own arrangements for taking French convoy wi th you tonight. Achates to Oonyngham: What time do you propose leaving with French convoy con-voy tonight'' Oonyngham to Achates: About 5 p. in. ; in order to arrive In Brest tonights j T'evonport commander in chief to Oonyngham: Oon-yngham: Proceed In execution admiralty orders Achates having relieved you. Sub-(marine Sub-(marine activity in That. 4S-41, Thong. 4-ol. I The Aubrietia had already given warn-I warn-I :ng of the danger referred to in the last words of this final message. Tt had been flashing the news in this way: ' 1:15 i m. A ubrietia i o Oonyngham : I Submarine sighted 40-30 X 6-8. Sighted I submarine on surface. Speed is not : enough. Course southwest by south magnetic. 1 :;10 p. m. Oonyngham to Achates: Au-j Au-j hriotia to all men of war and Band's Knd. Chasing submarine on the surface 49-30 X 6 IS YC course southwest by south., I Waiting to get into range. He is going i faster than I can. ?:0i) p. m. Aubrietia to all men of war: ! Submarine submerged 49-20 X 06-12 W. Still searching1. Submarines Hold ' Fighting Option. The fact that nothing more as seen of that submarine may possibly detract from th- thrill of tne experience, but in describing tho operations of this convoy. I am not attempting to tell a story of wild adventure, bur merely to set forth what happened ninety-nine out of a hundred hun-dred times. "What made destroyer work so exasperating was that, in the ma- j t " y.-y f.-, ti-'or-. c;' or r - ;h:..a:: ::'' '.o a u "va h .-d t - .-. , t ---.ar,.-.-.-: w-j.-id '' v r ..0'f'.nr, .-'io?e '-O - . . i I ..il j'-.o:: e::.ec the h'-a.t : r :'-e m-j:-"::.. T his v.a t..fe way ::: v. h:.ch n.-T-harit h:-j v e. - ir-A". ir-A". i::-.e l. -i.a:-i:ie was - .' f :. ---d'ld I ir.".: : ;. for This . j fti.Kwl agg. -'ar.on of --aivo voe!; J '.ad t:ol th- . - j:-j-?t:a discovered :t ar.d ' h:d V--'t oi: of th.- Aii.er.fan o.r-.-"t royerd 1 -:ar".d Tr:rz:. t.:e r-bdt w-ju!d Itave 1 :i.a'h; a'-'-a'-h and jssl'.jh wouhi liave , t one r ;i"'re ahios to iho Lot torn. t-'t ief bi.'.s'.nss of the e.-orting r-h ii' '.h ; iiro-g h the war, wa i t.:!- v.-: v.-: ',ta,"u!.ar une of cha-ing the Muoma-e Muoma-e '.i ti '. ; and for e1 ry underwater v---! a.''tuall' 'h'-:-riyed i here were, hun-1 hun-1 d :! -, of e. i.eri'-nces sifh as t r.e one . -Ah;rh I ia'. o jtjhi dCv-rhcd. '!' f: -eft of this in ; v. nr. even t :Vh Two Ai'irra; dvtroyrs es'Xr:ed II. M. S. Citniiv-rlH mJ Oiv.-an esvort s hie: ,'H'J afompiMiid the convoy :'."m .S'(i-r.ey .S'(i-r.ey 'At Ijevonport; the rest or' tho .mer- t-.. n fS'.'or: took ii s quota of merchant -in n Into Krest. and from that 'oiut .'it f-,i ba-h to j':.-nhtuwti, whence. ,a:n-r i hree or four da yd in purr., It went i on: v. ith anoiiter convoy. Thhs .aci th.e routine .vh:c;h ia.5 rupea'ed until the end of tae v, ar. Huns Attack Merchant Ship With Gunfire. Th.e OU 1T and the IJri H form an ii-i ii-i lusLration of convoys whicii made their t rip? sui'iossfuhy. Vet these same de-st:-o ers had another perience which pictures or.her phases of tho coin uy s;s-teni. s;s-teni. on the morning of October if, Commander Com-mander Johnson's division was escorting a great com oy of British ships on its way to the east coast of Ihigland. Suddenly Sud-denly out of the air came one of those calls which were daily occurrences in the submarine zone. The .J. L. luckeuhack signaled that she was ninety miles ahead of the convoy and was being shelled by a submarine, j In a few minutes the Nicholson, one of ! the destroyers of tlte escort, started to the rescue. For the uet fu'.v hours our ! ships began to pick out of the a!r the ; messages which detailed the. progress- of (his advent tire messages which tell the story so graphically and which arc so J typical of the events which were con-' con-' slant! y taking place in t hose waters, that 1 reproduce them verbatim: i:6L a. m. -S, O. J. L. .Luchcncack 1 being gunned by submarine. Position , X. y.iil VV. i'.'Jo Oonyngham to Nicholson: Proceed to assistance of iS, S. ship. 9:c)0 .Luck n back to L". S. A.: Am maneuvering around. .9:;-tu Luckenback to U. S. A.: How far are you away? U : 10 T.uckenback to f. S. A.: Code j books thrown overboard. Mow soon will j you arrive'." Nicholson to h.uc-;enbaok: 1 n two hou rs. 0:41 Jhuckenback to U. S. .A.: Look for boats. They are shelling us. Nicholson to Laickejibaek : Bo noi surrender. Bucken back to Nicholson : Never. 10:0.1 Nicholson to 3Juckenback: C'oui'de south magnetic. 1 2 ; 'J 6 p. m. Nicholson, to Oonyngham: Submarine submerged 47.47 X. 10.00 W. at li:-0. l:-3 Oonyngham to Nicholson: What became of steamer? o:-U Nicholson to admiral (at Queens-town Queens-town 1 and Oonyngham: Luckenback now joining convoy. Should be able to make port unassisted. Germans Economize in Use of Torpedoes. T have already said that a. great part of the destroyer's duty was to rescue ! merchantmen that were being attacked ! by submarines; this T,uekenback -incident vividly illustrates this point. Had the submarine used Its torpedo upon this vessel ves-sel it probably could have disposed of it summarily ; .but it was the part of wisdom wis-dom for the submarine to economize in these weapons, because they were so expensive ex-pensive and so comparatively scarce, and to use its guns whenever the opportunity offered. The Luckenback was armed, but rite fact that the submarine's guns easiiy outranged hers made her armament use-I use-I less. 1 Thus, all the German had to do in this case was to keep away at a safe distance dis-tance and bombard the merchantman. The U-boat had been doing this for more than three hours when the destroyer reached the scene of operations; evidently evident-ly the marksmanship was poor, for. out of a great many shots fired by the submarine, sub-marine, only about a dozen had hit the vessel. The "Luckenback was on fire, a shell having set aflame her cargo of tot-ton: tot-ton: certain parts of the machinery had I been damaged, but. in tiie main, the ves- ' sel was intact. i The s u m bar in e f a i way- s was h e ro : c enough when it came to shelling defenseless defense-less merchantmen, but the appearance of a destroyer anywhere tn her neighborhood neighbor-hood made her resort to the one secure road to safety diving for protection.1 The Nicholson immediately trained" her guns on the U-boat, which, on the second shot, disappeared under the water. The destroyer de-stroyer despatched men to the disabled vessel, the fire was extinguished, necessary neces-sary repairs to the machinery were made, and in a few hours the Luckciiback had become a member of the convoy. U-Boat Makes Attack on British Warship. Hardly had she joined .the merchant ships and hardly had the Nicholson taken up her stat ion on the flank when an event still more exciting took place. Jt was now late in tin- afternoon ; the sea nau quieted down; tn wnole atmosphere was one of peace: and there was not the slightest sign or suggestion of a hostile ship. The Grama, the British warshstp which had accompanied the convoy from its home port as ocean escort, had taken up her position as leading ship hi tne second column. Without the slightest warning, a terrific ter-rific explosion now took place on her starooard bow. There was no mystery as to what had happened : indeed, immediately im-mediately after the explosion, the wake of the torpedo appeared on the surface; there was no periscope in sight, yet it was clear, from th.e position of the wake, that the submarine had crept up to the side of the convoy and delivered its mis-si mis-si at close range. 1 There was no confusion in the convoy i or its escorting destroyers, but fhere werr scenes of great activity. Immedi- ately after th.e explosion, a periscope ao-I ao-I ; ."tared a few inches out of the tater. I sLaye j ther only a second or two and I then disappeared. Brief as was this ex-' ex-' posure. tbf keen eyes of the lookout and ' several sa ilnrs of th.e Conyi nghani. the nearest destroyer, had detected it: it dis-: dis-: closed the fact that th.e enemy was m the mfdst of the convov Itself, looking fr other shins to torpedo. I The Oonyngham ' rang for full speed and dashed for the location of the submarine, sub-marine, ller officers and men now saw more than the periscope; they say the vessel i:se!f. The water was very clear; as the Oonyntj-ham circled around the L'rama her officers and men sighted a green, shining, cigar-shaped thing under 1 i ho water not far from th.e s larboard slue. Depth Charge Dropped by Destroyer. As she sned by. the fiestro er dropped a , i do-nh charge ahnos: direct : -m top of . ' t -e object. Af;er th.- water :.ad qui-ted ! down, pieces of deoris v. err se-n floatms ; upon the surface Doards, spars and o; her ivhseehanyo-.is wreckage, c idently ':"! os of the damaged deck of tne suj-Pinrine. suj-Pinrine. All attempts to sae the Orama iTOved fru'tless; th- defoyers stood by for five hours, tak! ng off survivor:, and making all possii.de ef'orts to salvage the ship, but at about 1h o'clock that evening she disappeared under the water. In rescuing the survivors the scan. an- ! I ship of the Oonyngham was particular!' ! praiseworthy. The Ihtlc ycss-rl was ski!- : fu'.'.v placed alongside the orama and ; snnie three hundred men were taken off , 'without accident or casualty while the j ! Vmr of r.x things iha( r.t rule th wo-k I ..V" t; '.---y;-oyv:' -"Teh t h ukl 0:: ! takl , was thai only in the rarest cas-'-s as i; ' possible to prove that sue had dcstmy-d j the submarine. Only the a-tual '-apture j of th.e e.neniy ship or so:i:e of its i-tv furnls'.ied irrefutable proof that it had really gone ;o tle bottiun. Tho appearance of oil uii :): Mirfac" 'after a depth e.targ.- attach was Tot I necessarily significant, for the submarine early learned the trick of pumping overboard over-board a ktue. od after such an experience; experi-ence; in this vay it hoped to persuade j Its pursuer that it had been eunk and j thus induce ii. to abandon tho chase, j Kven tne appearance of wreckage, such I as arose ou the surface after the Oon-i Oon-i ylngharn attack, did not absolutely provf that tiie submarine had buen destroyed. Yet. as this submarine was never nard of again, there Is little doubt that Oom-mander Oom-mander Johnson's depth charge performed per-formed its allotted task. , Commander Johnson Awarded C. M. G. for Act. The judgment of the British govern-men govern-men I, which awarded him the O. M. O. for his achievement, may 1 e accepted as final. The admiralty citation for this decoration reads as follows: "At 5 : o 0 p. m., (. M. S. Orama. v. r s torpedoed in convoy. Oonyngham went full speed, el rrlcd bow of ' Orama, saw nhnvriiie between 11 tics of convoy, passed right over it so that it was plain - : ly visible and dropped depth charge. : Prompt and correct action, of Oomman ier Johnson saved more ships from being torpedoed and probably destroyed the submarine." One of tho greatest difficulties of convoy con-voy commanders, especially during the first months the system was in operation, was wit It "slacker" merchantmen; these vessels, which, for various reasons, foil behind the convoy, a tempting hair for the submarine. At this time certain of the merchant captains manifested an incurable in-curable obstinacy; they affected to regard re-gard the U-boats with contempt, and insisted in-sisted rather on taking chances instead ! of playing the game. Tn such cases the destroyer would often have to leave the main division, go tack several miles and ar tempt to prod the straggler into joining the convoy, much as a shepherd dog attempts to force the i . laggard sheep to keep within the f loch. In some cases, when the merchantman ; proved particularly obdurate, the destroyer destroy-er would slyly drop a depth charge, near enough to "five a backward vessel a con- i slderable shaking up without doing her any injury; usually such a shock caused , t'ae merchantman to start full speed ' ahead to rejoin her convoy, firmly believing be-lieving that a submarine was giving t chase. 1 In certain instances the merchantman fell behind tho convoy because the machinery ma-chinery had broken down or because she bad suffered other accidents. The submarines sub-marines would follow for days in the track of convoys, looking for a straggler ( of this kind, just as a shark will follow a vessel in the hope that something will be thrown overboard; and for this reason one destroyer at least was often detached from the escorting division as a rear guard. Tn this connection wo must keep in mind that at no time until the armistice armi-stice was signed was any escort force strong enough to insure entire safety. Which added to the very heavy responsibility respon-sibility upon escort commanders. Christabel Has j Exciting Encounter. j One late summer afternoon the American Amer-ican converted yacht Christabel was performing per-forming this duty for the British merchantman mer-chantman TJanae, a vessel which had fallen, eight miles behind her convoy, bound from La Pallice, France, to Brest. Tt was a beautiful evening: the weather I was clear, the sea smooth, and there was not a breath of wind. Under such conditions o submari tie could conceal its presence only with great difficulty: and at about 5:30 the lookout on the Christabel detected a wake, some six hundred yards on the port quarter. The Christabel started full speed; the wake suddenly ceased, but a few splotches of oil were seen, and she was steered in the direction of this disturbance. distur-bance. A depth charge was dropped at the spot where tho submarine ought to have been, but it evidently did not produce the slightest result. The Christabel rejoined the Danae, and the two went along peacefully for nearly four hours, when I suddenly a periscope appeared about two hundred yards away, on the slarboari side. Bvidently this persistent German had been following the shins ah that time, looking for a favorable opportunity to discharge ills torpodo. That moment had now arrived; the .submarine was at I a distance where a carefully aimed shot meant certain destruction ; the appearance appear-ance of the periscope meant that the submarine wes making observations in anticipation of delivering this snot. The Christabel started full epeed for the wake of the periscope; this periscope Itself disappeared dis-appeared under the v, ater like a guilty thing, and a distu chance on the surface showed that tiie submarine was making frantic efforts to submerge. Explosion Follows Depth Bomb Discharge. The destroyer dropped a depth charge, set to explode at seventy feet, its radio meantime sending signals broadcast for assistance. Immediately after the mushroom mush-room of water arose from this charge a secondary explosion was heard: this was ; a horrible muffled sound coming from the deep, more powerful and more terri-i terri-i b'.e than any that cou'.d have been caused j by the destroyer's "ash can." Art enor-I enor-I nious volcano o'" water and a)I kinds of ; debris arose from the sea. half way be- tween the Ohris:aoe; and the spot where it dropued its charge. Tins secondary I explosion shook the Christabel so violently violent-ly that the officers thoueht at first that the ship had "been seriously damaged. .nd a couple of men were knocked sprawling ou the deck. As soon as the water subsided, great t masses of heavy black oil bgan rising I j tt the surface, and completely splintered ! i wood and other wreckage appeared. Tn : i a few minutes the sea. for a space of I many hundred yards in diameter, was I I covered with dead fish about ten times ' as many, tiie officers rerted, as could j 1 have been killed by the usual depth c'rti.:-g:e. The Christabel and The ship she ! was guarding smarted "u rejoin the main ' onvoy. errire'v satisfied irh the after- I r.oon's work. Indeed, they had good r-a- : son to be; a day or two arhrward a battered bat-tered submarine, th.e U C'-GO. crept pain- ' "ulJy into the harhor of .SantanoVr, Soain: ' was the boat which had '.ad such an ' exciting content with the C'.nstHbih Hi"1-; i was Injured bevond ;he pof-uibili t y of re- pair: besides, the Spanish go eminent interned in-terned her for "the duration of the war"; ' so that, for aii practical purposes, the : ve.-sel was as good as sunk. I i |
