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Show SEAMANSHIP SAVES SUBMARINE. French Vessel Reaches Port After It Had Been Given Up as Lost. Washington. Safe arrival at a European Euro-pean port of a 110-feet submarine chaser, with a French crew aboard, which had not been heard from since January 15, was announced February 27 by the navy department. The little craft was separated from her escort during a terrific gale while bound for Europe. No navigating instruments were aboard, but after being blown far off their course, the Frenchmen estimated their position and headed for port. To their remarkable seamanship is attributed their success of the voyage. With the engines disabled by the storm, the crtw rigged up sails from bed coverings and sailed for thirty-nine thirty-nine days. |