The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-12
ENGLARD'S FLEET PRESENTS MARKED
 CHANGE IN LOOKS
Submarine Hunting and Mine Fishing Sport For
 Destroyers and Trawlers.

London, Oct. 2-strangest look ins sf all the ships with the British
 Grand Fleet is the Atlantic liner S- the Atfezutic liner which has been seSnsformed into a mother-shtp for saes seapIanes. There are platforms A place of the promenades where 0assengers useds-to lounge, bombs in NsSce of deck quoitss and the dining shops. Everything that seap1ane needs in the way of repairs can be supplied.
 ..Here is our assortment of bombs '' said an ohcers showing an exhibit of different sizes on shele. s@Fhat one weighs a hundred pounds, the same as a. sfx-inch- shell.
 eWhat do you use them on?" he was asked.
 Anything, from a German cruiser, if 7vea get chance at one, to a sub marine. That big bomb would finish al Zeppelin, too. "
 A crane that once had taken pas sengers' trunks out of the hold lifted a seap1ane off a platform and depos- tied it on the water where it bounc- ed on the waves before the motor was started and it skinned across the surface for hundred yards or more, rose, circied around the feet twoso or three at sea With it's float it looked clumsy beside an oplane--the diff ference between a duck and a hawk
 Most Of the romance and the action of sea warfare while the British Grand Fleet waits for the German fleet to come ont are the aeroplanes and the desuoyers The dread nougIlts remain in harbors except for occasional cruises into the North Sea; but the planes and the destroy CTS are always on the move They work together in hunting Fritz, as British officers and men universally refer to submarines.
 A submarine is visible to an avia-a tor when it is cruising below the sur Iface. It@never travels deeper than 30 or 40 feet and leaves a charact eristic ripple and air bubbles and Etreaks of ioil When a plane has located a submarine it signals the hunters where to go. But before they arrive a sduan may have hidden the track A subnarirla may be known to be in a certain region and be lost and seen and lost and seen again Submarine hunting is a tireless game of hide and seek Naval ingenuity has invented no end of methods Of location and of destruetioH- Experiment has prov ed some to be e6fecfual and some use less Strictest kept of naval secrets
 Very thin the skin of a submarine and very fragile and complicated it's machinery It does not take much oE q shock to put 1t out of order or a 1arge cargo Of explosives to dent that akin beyond repair
 stThe difdcuItyS is to know when EDu get Ihernss' an oi11cer explained, for # is In the nature of the sub marine to sink, whether vitalIy in pured or not It may have gone to the bottom to stay in 50 fathoms of water or # may have Submerged under a choppy sea and made it's es- cape We have been hunting them for year, now, and no doubt we are getting the better of them We have not only learned how to keep them off from our great ships, but how to destroy them.s
 If oil and bubbles come up for a long time in one place or if they come up with rush, that is consid- cred fairly good evidence of success There is no escape for the crew. They cannot make the subn1arines rise or get out of 1t It becomes a. steel caslket in a watery grave No nautical mind is required to Fea1ize that by grapnel you will learn if an object with the bulk and size Of submarine is there; and the .dea4h,s of subrla- riries is established in this wsty
 The Admiralty will not accept any guess work about fl, saId an officer. -FvVe may have put an explosive right into one or ramn1ed tt in a way thatfis not proof enough The record goes down on the chart as .supposed desttoyed-
 At one naval base the correspond- @nt saw . number of destroyers lying 1 moored to a qnay as close together e,-. | come in from a tour at sea-
 Here today and gone tomorrow 's l said an od1rer What time they l had 1asz W1rtexs And they are in for another winter of 1t. You know how cold the North Sea 1s-no. you can not unless you have been out in a torpedo Toat dancing the tango in the teeta of that bitter wind. with the spray whipping up to the top of ! the suokestackse In the dead of night they would come into this pitch-dark harbox, How they found their way is past me It's a trick of those yos1xg fellows who commando !
 If a destroyer gets on the track of a submarine # has 30 knots against the submarines six or eight. There is no difficulty fn keeping ups her wfreless brings swarm Of assistance. The fast turbine destroyera seemed to slip over the water as if their bot toms were oiled. Only a few of the crew are exposed when showers of freezing spray sweep the decks. and { all are clad in thick short coats Of i lama wool, which kee3 their bodies i warm and leave the legs free for | movement in keeping footing as the l destroyers roll and plunge in a heavy l sea,
 Every ship son the b1ockade from ! Iceland to the British Channel is also | a part of tlIe system of submarine hunting They show no lights, there 1 are no igllts aIong thee oast at night |
 'sIt gives one an idea Of EalgIand,s | maritime resourcesss, said an officer, when you consider that we have | 2.S90 tTaW1ers and other auxiliary 1 ships on service