The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-07-03
EXPLOITS Of
THE Ell
British Submarine that Penetrated
Dardanelles and Reached
the Bosphorus

London, July 3.-The Chronicle
publishes the following account by
one of the crew of the exploit of the
British submarine ELL for which
Lieut. Commander Nasmith received
the Victoria Cross and each of his
men the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
''We left Imbros one morning about
3 o'clock and steamed toward the
Dardanelles and dived as day was
breaking, and-well, got through the
Narrows all right, arrived on the
other side and saw two battIeships.
We were getting ready to torpedo one
of them when they spotted us, opened
fire on us and nipped, bunked and ran
away.
The First @Tin Fish"
"We then journeyed on for mile or
two and then went to the bottom and
rested until about s p. m, 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 un-
til Sunday morning, when we were
diving outside Of Constantinople and
saw big gunboat, and at 6:25 we
gave her a tin fish, By $50 she was
no more; but before she sank, while
she was listing over, they opened fire
on us The second shot nit our peri
scope and done it in.' That gunner
must have been cool card, eh2
"On Monday we sighted steamer.
came to the surface alongside her and
told her to stop. She stopped. and
the men were 50 anxious to get clear
that one boat capsized. No lives
were lost. There was a Yankee cor
respondent aboard who tried to bluff;
no good though, COS an officer and
two men boarded her and discovered
she had 6-inch gun, several gun
countings and ammunition aboard 50
we blew her up. In a few minutes we
sighted another steamer and told her
to stop. She wouldn't. We chased
her into the harbor, and when she
was securing alongside pier we tor
pedoed her.
A Brush with Cavalry
"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
ed fire. We replied and dropped q
few, and then dipped and torpedced
the ship
'sThe next day Tuesday our skip
per decided on entering CONSTANT
nople. To make a long story short.
we got into the harbor without mis-
hap, and fired two torpedoes, one Of
which sank a transport loaded with
troops, and the other exploded on
shore somewhere. We learned after
wards that it cauesd some panic The
troops refused to go on another trans
port, the shops closed and people ran
up the hills-In fact, it caused an up
roar for a time
'sThe following Friday morning we
saw FIVE transports escorted by de-
stroyers. We banged the first and
biggest one, which sank in about
three minutes.
a few days later we went back to
our old corner where we sank those
other three, and caught supply ship
mapping.
A Farewell Smack
"a few days afterward we tor
pedoed a German transport. and then
we got no more blood for time until
last Monday morning. On our way
back, just before entering the Mar
rows, we sank another transport,
That was our farewell smack
aWe broke surface that evening.
We found mine hanging over ON
bows. We chucked it of as quick a
possible. Then our escort came up
and gave MS three cheers. and of W.
went
~When we entered the harbor Il