Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-31
MOTHER SHIP FOR SEA PLANE
English Convert Atlantic Liners
Into Vessels Upon Which Flying
Machines Rest
CARE OF THE SUBMARINES

Il
fleet is the Atlantic liner which has !
been transformed into . mother-shlp Tor
the sea-planes. There are platforms In !
place OF the promenades where passen-
gers used 70 lounge, bombs In place %
deck-auoits, and the dining saloons have F,
been fitted up a. workshops, Every
thing that a seaplane needs In the way
| OF repairs can be supplied,
Here IL our assortment Of bomhA,"
said an officer, showing an exhibit Of
different sizes on shelf. That one
weighs 100 pounds, the Same A. SIX
inch she'll"
What do YOU use them On'" he was
asked.
Anything from . German cruiser II
we set q chance at one. to a submarine.
That big bomb would finish Zeppelin,
too"
A crane that once had taken passen--
gers trunks out OF the hold lifted a
seaplane off a platform and deposited
Il on the water, whore Il bounced on the
waves before the motor was started and
u skimmed across the surface for 100
yards or more. rose. circied around the
fleet two or three times and then dis
appeared out a. sea. with its floats q
looked clumsy beside an aeroplane-the
difference between a duck and a hawk.
Romance OF sea Warfare.
Most Of the romance and the action
Of sea warfare while the British grand
fleet waite for the German feet to come
out arc the seaplanos and the destroy
ers. The dreadnoughts remain IN hars
Dor. except for occasional cruises into
tho North Sea, but the planes and the
destroyers are always on the now. They
. F-aam
. British officers and msn universally re-
fer to submarines.
A submarine 10 visible to an aviator
when II 10 cruising below the surfaca II
never travels deeper than thirty or forty
feet and leaves a Characteristic ripple
and air-bubblss and streaks OF oil. When
plane has located 9 submarine Il sig
nails the hunters where 20 80, But be-
/ fore they arrive a squll may have hid
! den the track A submarine may be
known to be in = certain region and be
, lost and sean and loaf and seen again.
Submarine hunting IL q tirsless game OF
. hide and seek. Naval ingenuity has in
vented no end of methods OF location
and OF destruction. Experiment has
: proved some TO be sffectual and some
. useless strictest kept Of naval secrets
these.
Very thin the skin Of = submarine and
very fragile and complicated its ma
chnery. II does not take much OF q
shock to put II out OF order or a large
l. cargo Of explosives TO dent that skin
| beyond repair.
To KnOw Just when.
: The difficulty IL to know when you
get them" an officer explained: for IL
is In the nature OF the submarine to
l sink. whether vitality injured or not. II
! may have gone to the bottom to stay IN
I fifty fathoms of water. or Il may have
I submerged under n choppy sea and made
!. itH escape. We have been hunting them
for a year. now. ana no doubt we are
!. getting the better OF them. We have
I not only learned how to keep them off
I from our great ships. but how to de-
I stroy them"
! II oil and bubbles come up for long
: time In one place orIi they come up with
rush, that IL considered fairly good
4 evidence Of success There IL no escape
for the crew. They cannot make the sub
I marine rise or get out OF II. II becomes
a steel caskst In q watsry grave. No nau-
teal mind IL required 20 realise that by
casting about on the bottom with a CRAP
\ mel you will learn II an object with the
bulk and size Of q submarine II thers.
and the death" Of submarines IL cstab-
Z lished In this way.
Z "The admiralty win not accept any
e guess work about IT," said an officer.
I'VE may have put an cAplqNve right
9 into one OF rammed II IN a way that
must have broken It's back. but that II
y not proof enough. The record goes down
y on the chart as supposed destroyed
Z Here Are Traps.
with Admiral Crawford the correspond.
y emit OF The Associated Press went TO SOC
u the submarine defenses OF a harbor
I Cruisers and destroyers and Auxiiisriss
y were going and coming. but tho narrow
X openings through which they passed were
:, closed instantly they were by. There wal
more than one obstruction. II subma'
y rins got past the first or the second
Y lit was IN a pocket. Several have beer
y caught in this why.
/" Take cnre! There is q tide hereI" the
coxswain Of the admlrafs barge wal
warned I'VE don't want 20 get caught ir
trap mean. for Fritz"
ut Al one naval base the correspondent
~ ~ saw a number Of destroyers lying mooret
We to q quay as close together IN fish IN {
Is basket. They had just came in from Z
- tour at sea.
e. Speed OF Thirty Knots.
~ a. a destroyer gets on the track OF
10 submarine II has thirty knots against TIN
20 submarines six OF eight. There IL -
~ difficulty In keeping up; its wireless
% brings a swarm of assistance. The fast
turbine destroyers seemed TO slip owe
20 the water as n their bottoms wer
n oiled. Only a few Of the crew are expose
when showers Of freezing spray swec
20 the decks. and all are clad In thicl
~ short coats Of llama wooi which kee
5O0 their bodies warm and leave the lee
free for movement in keeping footin
as the destroyers roll and plunge in
heavy sea.
- Every ship on the blockade from Ice
land to the British Channel IL also 9 pa
OF system Of submarine hunting. The
show no light; there are no lights slon
- the coast at night.
ed ut Eiyes one an idea OF England
- maritime resources" said an office
when YOU consider that We have 80
trawisrs and other auxiliary ships o
service"
The trawfers plod over sea-squarc