Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-11-12

Presently we arrived in the vicinity
of the stranded submarine. BY this
time eight searchlights were trained
our boat, and we were being fired
from six directions. The noise of
the guns and the splashes in the wa
ter and the powerful beams of the
searchlights must have made an effec-
tive Ger Personally, however, l had
not much time to consider the artistic
side of it, as / was steaming zigzag
courses to puzzle the gunners, gradu-
ally getting near to the place where
we thought ELS was. The Majestic's
boat had been fired on, but not to such
an extent, as we, being the leading
boat, received at first most of the
enemy's attention.
I'VE saw a dark mass which we
thought must be the submarine (there
was no searchlight on it, so we could
not make sure), and the order was
given to fire one torpedo, which we
did, but as we heard no explosion con
Guided we had missed.
The current was very strong and
rather like a whirlpool in Kephez bay,
so steering was very difficult, and it
was an effort to keep ones head with
the noise of guns all round us and the
dazzle of the searchlights.
I'VE steamed up a short distance
and turned round intending to close
again and fire u other torpedo, but
suddenly saw the Majestic's boat in
trouble and the crew calling for help.
1t appeared that coming up behind us,
and while the searchlights were TO-
cused on us one of the beams passed
us and shone right on ELS, and the
Majestic's boat was luckily only 200
yards away and saw it. Goodwin i'm.
mediately fired one torpedo, which did
not strike the object. At that mo.
ment his boat was struck by a shell
under the water line aft and com
menced to take in water rapidly. He
CALAMITY turned his boat toward E-15
again, steamed in a bit and fired his
second torpedo, which caught ELS just
in front of the coming tower and on
the forward whaleback of the hull
making a fine explosion. / consider
| this was a very brave deed, as Goodwin
knew he was in imminent danger Of
| sinking, but ran in again to have
second shot.
Wounded Man Overlooked.
when we saw them their ster1
sheets were awash and it looked as i
they might have to swim for it. w
Unanswered the boat to go alongside
but the current was terrible and i
made the handling a very difficult mat
ter. The enemy saw the disaster ant
redoubled their efforts. The sea al
round us was a mass of splashes from
~projectiles, some of them Is to 20 fee
high, while the water where the shraI
mel burst was pitted as if by heav.
rain. How it was we were not hit
cannot say-one would imagine it wa
impossible to come out of such an il
ferno. All l can say is that God pre-
served us and not a shot actually hi
though we were one and all wet wit
the s~plashes. After some diff Guilty W
got alongside the Majestic's boat an
they jumped on board. We were yer
delighted to hear that they had bee.
successful and had done the job of tol
pedoing E-15.
LAS we steamed round again PRE-
paratory to heading put we saw a ma
crawling out of the other boats ster
sheets. He had been forgotten in tn
hurry of the moment. 1t looked lik
suicide to go back, but of course W
could not leave him there, so maneu'
cred close again and shouted to him t
get into the water and swim towar
us, which he did, and we hauled hil
into the boat unconscious. Goodwin
who looked after him, had him pl
down the forepeak and it was foun
that his legs had been crushed throug
the explosion of the shell which struc
the boat. He was the only man in til
stern sheets and in the dark the
overlooked him when it came to aba
doning their boat.
THE enemy evidently thought tn,
there were men still ON the sinkir
> boat, as they kept their searchligl
on her and concentrated a heavy fl
also. They must have wasted a fe
hundred rounds. This enabled us
: steal away quietly, and, as there W;
about a four-knot Cor even more) Gu
rent running, we soon got some d
lance away. We had steamed ov
two mine fields to get to ELS.
"The Old Navy Touch"
!, I'VE first went to the Majestic
i the outer southern line of patr,