Show 9 I ACOB JONES SINKS EIGHT MINUTES AFT AFTER E RS SHOT DOT 1 J 1 iri Motor Boat r Boat Boat Fails Fail to Work 1 A t and rand Survivors Row V to If I I B 1 Rescue t By ey International News Service W WASHINGTON Jan 11 11 The The of officers officers otI ot- I j ers and crew of the destroyer Jacob I Jones nes sunk by a German German submarine submarine on the afternoon of December r 6 knew I th their lr impending fate but were unable to avert it This was disclosed today I I in tn report of Lieutenant Comander Commander Com Corn I mander mandor David Worth Bagley to the navy department J I Tho The torpedo was sighted when at a a. distance of hall half a mile abeam The officer of tho the deck S S. F F. Talk Falk I l f who ho afterwards died of exposure took prompt measures to maneuver the I so BO as to avoid being struck The commanding officer said however I t I that the torpedo was too near to esI escape es- es 1 I cape pe and immediate efforts were I made to launch lifeboats and save saye the lives of the crew t As the radio antennae and mainmast mainmast mainmast main main- mast were carried away and electric po power ver failed immediately it was not possible to use the radio apparatus Bagley reported The gunnery otI of officer ot- ot I Lieutenant J J. K Richards made madei i i every effort to get aft to secure the depth charges but was unable to do doIt It so Before the ship sank three rafts 1 were lost and another floated off when tho destroyer went down A small ISmaIl motor dory and two other small i 1 boats oats likewise floated clear The i motorboat was seaworthy but Its engine eni en- en i pine gine would not run One of the all Ip-all mall boats was damaged but was of use in ill getting men onto the rafts The Mme J e whaleboat was as launched but was useless owing to damage from the tho explosion SHIP SETTLES As the ship settled the commanding officer ran along long the deck and ordered ordered or- or dered everybody to Jump overboard I j Most rost of the men who were not killed I 1 by bye the explosion got clear of the ship and reached rafts or wreckage al although although although al- al though a a. few were seen to be swim- swim ing at a considerable distance from i the ship Eight minutes after being t struck the destroyer sank Bank stern first About fifteen minutes minutes' later tho the submarine subsurface sub submarine marine came to the surface and at atthe picked up two survivors although be betaken betaken e tho the time only one was seen to taken aboard The submarine then submerged and was not seen again Immediately after tho the sinking the commanding officer who jumped overboard as the tile ship sank and was picked up by y the tho I motor o dory lt had efforts s made made madey to get all an survivors on the rafts and get the tho rafts and boats together He then began to make arrangements to reach the tho nearest land in tho motorboat so as to bring assistance e to the survivors on tho the rafts KNOWS COURSE Lieutenant Richar Richards s was given ghen or orders orders orders or- or ders to take charge of the survivors and keep the rafts together The Tho commanding officer and the tho navigating navi i Scott knew i gating officer Lieutenant accurately the position of ot the ship when she sank and Also l knew new the tho course to the nearest port They I therefore made the trip In the moto dorY with four men to assist All the time provisions and medical kit from irom the tho motorboat were left with the men in the rafts except a few I emergency rations and halt half a a. bucket of ot water vater The boat oat had to be I pulled by oars as the engine would not run PICKED UP After a very trying trip during which It was necessary to steer by bythe bythe bythe the stars and by the time direction of tho the wind the boat was as picked ped up at 1 o'clock the next afternoon by a small patrol pat vessel The Tho senior officer of the station to which this patrol vessel vessel vessel ves ves- sel belonged informed Lieutenant Commander Ba Bagley ley that the other survivors had all been rescued I Commander Bagley Dagley gives unstinted I praise to the behavior of officers and men Lieutenant Norm Norman l Scott of StLouis St St. Louis executive officer accomplished a great s-reat deal towards getting boats and nd rafts in the water turning off steam from the to the en- en getting and splinter splinter splinter ter materials from tho the bridge into the water in person firing tiring signal guns encouraging and assisting the themen themen themen men and in general doing everything possible in the short time available a He HI was waI of ot invaluable assistance during durIng during dur dur- ing the trip in fn the tho dory |