Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-07-08
SUBMARINE FIGHTS
AS TOLD BY SAILOR
British JaCkie's SIangy De-
SCriptIOn of His Activities.
SHELLED BY TURKS SHIPS


nopIe and Gave Her Tin Fish,"
Member of Crew Of Ell Says In De-
scription of Underwater Cruise
Through the DardaneIes.
London.-The following account by
one of the crew Of the exploit Of the
British submarine Ell, for which
Lieutenant Commander Nasmith re-
ceiyed the Victoria cross and each of
his men the distinguished service med
al, has just been received here from the
Dardanelles:
1--WE left Imbros one morning about
3 and steamed toward the Dardanelles
and dived as day was breaking, and
well, got through the narrows O. K,
arrived on the other side and saw two
battleships. We were getting ready to
torpedo one Of 'em when they spotted
us, opened fire on us and nipped, bunk
ed and ran away.
eve then journeyed on for mile or
two and then went to the bottom and
rested until about 8 p. NJ, when we
came up. 1t was dusk; so we looked
around. Nothing in sight. We broke
the surface and entered the sea of
Marmora and bumped around for a
few days without sighting thing I'M
til Sunday morning, when we were div
ing outside Of ConstantinOple and saw
a big gunboat, and at 6:25 a. m. we
gave her a tin fish, By $50 a. NJ
she was no more; but before she sank,
while she was listing over, they opened
fire on us. The second shot hit our
periscope and done it in That gunner
must have been a cool card, eh?
ION Monday we sighted a steamer,
came to the surface alongside her and
told her to stop. She stopped, and the
men were so anxious to get clear that
one boat capSiZed No lives were lost
There was a Yankee correspondent
aboard who tried to bluff; no good,
though, eos an officer and two men
boarded her and discovered she had a
six inch gun, several gun mountings
and fifteen inch ammunition aboard.
So we blew her up.
"a few minutes after we sighted an
other steamer and told her to stop. She
wouldn't. We chased her into the har-
Dor, and when she was securing along
side a pier we tOrpedOed her.
''Soon after we sighted another
steamer and chased her till she ran
ashore. We were about to board her
when some cavalry came up and open
oI
and then dived and torpedoed the ship.
Next day our skipper decided on en-
tering ConstantinOple. To make a
long story short, we got into the har-
Dor without mishap and fired two tor
pedoes, one Of which sank a transport
FOaded with troops and the other eX-
ploded on shore somewhere. We learn
ed afterward that it caused some panic.
The troops refused to go on another
transport, the shops closed, and peo-
pie ran up the hills-in fact, it caused
uproar for a time.
THE following Friday morning we
saw five transports escorted by de-
stroyers. We banged the first and big
gest one, which sank in about three
minutes.
"A few days later we went back to
our old corner where we sank those
othes three and caught a supply ship
mapping.
GA few days after we torpedoed a
German transport and then we got no
more blood for time On our way
back, just before entering the Narrows,
we sank another transport That was
our farewell smack.
when we broke surface that even
ing we found a mine hanging over our
bows. We chucked it off as quick as
possible, when our escort came up,
gave us three cheers and off we went.
when we entered the harbor it was
dark. Had it been daylight the admi-
raj would have made us steam round
the fleet All the ships we passed as
we were making for the Adamant
cheered us. The Adamant, although
the smallest ship of 'em all, gave us
the best cheers. It was good to hear
it and to know that we had at last
done something worthy of praise"