The sun., 1915-10-24

/ suns anu tne spihsnes III the water
and the powerful beams Of the search
lights must have made an effective
scene. Personally. however, had not
much time to consider the artistic side
OF II. as ] was steaming xigxag courses
| to puxzle the gunners. gradually get
ting near to the place where we thought
| ELS was. The Majestic's boat had been
nred on. but not to such an extent.
as we being the leading boat received
| at first most Of the enemy's attention.
We saw a dark mass which we
| thought must be the submarine tthere
was no searchlight on IL. 40 we could
not make sureD. and the order was given
to fire one torpedo, which we did. but as
| We heard no explosion concluded we had
missed.
The current was very strong and
rather ike a whirlpool in Kephes Bay,
70 steering was very difficult, and II was
an effort to keep ones head with the
noise Of guns all round us and the da azzle
| Of the seaNhlights.
"We steamed up a short distance and
| turned round intending to close again
and fire our other torpedo, but suddenly
saw the Majestic's boat In trouble and
the crew calling out for help. II ap-
| peared that coming up behind us, and
while the searchlights were focused on
us one of tire beams passed us and
shone right Oh ELS. and the Majestic's =
boat was luckily only 200 yards away
and saw 1t. Goodwin Immediately fired
one torpedo. which did not strike the
object. At that moment his boat was
struck by a shell under the water line
aft and commenced 10 take In water
rapidly lie galiantiy turned his boat
! toward Els again, steamed In a bit
and fired his second torpedo. which
caught Ell just In front OF the coming
tower and on the forward whaleback OF
! the hull. making hne explosion. ]
consider this wus very brave deed. as
Goodwin knew he was in imminent danger
of sinking. but nan in again to have a
second shot.
when we saw them their stern sheets
! were awash and II looked as II they
might have to swim for It, We
y nanpuvred the boat to 20 alongside,
/ hut the current was terrible and 1t made
/ the handling a very difficult matter. The
enemy saw the disaster and redouhled
I their efforts. The sea all round Us was
. mass of spla shes from projectilee. some
, Of them rs to 20 feet high. while the
water where the shrapnei burst was
| pitted as " by heavy rain. How II was
! We were not hit I cannot say-one would
| imagine 1t was impossible to come out OF
such an inferno. All | can say In that
! Col preserved us and not shot actually
the sy,lashes After some difficulty We
got alongside the Majestic's boat and
| they jumped on board. We were very
delighted TO hear that they had been
successful and had done the fob Of tor
/ peioing E-15.
| AS we steamed round again prepara-
| tory to heading out We saw a man
! crawling out OF the other boats stern
sheets. He had been forgotten in the
' hurry OF the moment. II looked like
! suicide to go hack. hut of course We
could not leave him there, ~ mau9uvred
close again and shouted to him to get
| into the water aud swim toward Us,
! which he did. aud we hauled him into
/ the boat unconscious. Goodwin. who
7 looked after him. had him put down
the forepeak and II WAS found that his
legs had been crushed through the ex-
plnsion Of the shell which struck the
boat. He was the only man in the stern
sheets and in the rk they overlooked
! him when II came to abandoning their
boat.
/ by this time We thought we had bet
( ter clear out. 80 turned our nose toward
home and steamed away at half speed
| stiA under heavy fire. We did not lik.
to 20 full speed, as we thought it would
shake up the wounded man too much, 6.
THE enemy evidently thought tina,
there were men stlll on the sinking boat
as they kept their searchlight on her and
| concentrated a heavy fire also. They
, must have wasted n few hundred rounds
This enabled us to steal away quietly
| and, as there WAS about a four knot
tor even more) current running, we soon
got somo distance away. We had
steamed over two mine fields to get to