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Show 'British Crew Saved From Submarke After Thrilling Thrill-ing Experience. MELD FASTJN MUD Captain Dies in Attempting Attempt-ing to Secure Relief For His Men. LONDON, Nov. 24. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) An extraordinary extra-ordinary story of the salvage of a Bri-trish Bri-trish submarine which went down in Gaerloch lock, near the Glyde. has now been published. The submarine had seventy-three persons on board. The order was given to submergo and water wa-ter began to pour into her aft and she descended stern down to a depth of 15 fathoms. j An inspection showed that tho ventilating ven-tilating shaft had been left open and 31 persons in the rear of tho vessel were drowned immediately. The forepart fore-part Was shut off and the forty-two persons there were saved. How their rescue was accomplished was sensational. sensa-tional. A few hours had passed before divers were sent down on what they considered a forlorn hope, so far as bringing anyone up alive was concerned. con-cerned. Getting to the bottomi they discovered that the stern of the vessel ves-sel was embedded in many feet of mud. Knocking at tho hull they were amazed to hear a responsive tapping. Then Captain Goodhart attempted a task which reads like a tale from JulesVerne. The high pressure bottles bot-tles were brought Into use. The Captain Cap-tain .undertook with their aid to be projected through the conning tower and shot up into the water with the hope of reaching surface and giving information regarding those below. He was shot forward but his head struck a beam and he was Instantly killed. Another officer volunteered and was fortunate enough to reach lh6 surface and give Information about tho conditions condi-tions of the others below. Rescuers inserted through a water flap a flexible flex-ible hose through which air. food and chocolates were passed. Strong wires were put around the vessel and the air bottles utilized to blow out the oil fuel stowed forward which enabled the vessel to drive upwards at high speed until her bow was well above tho water wa-ter in a perpendicular position. Immediately a big hole was made in her by acetylene burners and the forty-two men brought out and conveyed to an infirmary. They had been below -i nours wnen uaptain uoounart made his ill-fated attempt and altogether the party was 57 hours before being saved. Captain Goodhart was posthumously aAvarded the Victoria Cross. LONDON, Nov. 21. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press) Allied methods meth-ods of gaining information about the movement of submarines during the war never will be divulged fully but the accuracy of the daily reports has I proved one of. the surprising features I of the war here. Very few submarines subma-rines left their base unknown to the Allied fleet commanders. In addition the numbers of vessels, the duration of their cruises and the locality Jn which they were ordered to operate were known In nearly every case. Wireless operators al sea and ashore heard the submarines reporting in code to Germany every night and their positions po-sitions were learned by a system of reckoning tho wave lengths. This was done so accurately that tho submarine subma-rine could be definitely located as close as a mile, which is very close in tho expanse of tho sea. This assisted the anti-submarine patrols. Thoy could keep tho Germans on the move by remaining In waters in which they knew the U-boats were ordered to operate and did not waste time hunting where it was unlikely the prey was working. |
