The Monticellonian., 1916-07-20
Liked the Submerging.


Liked the Submereing.
Those on the Deutschland besides
himself were First Mate Krapuhl, Sec
ond Mate Gyring, Chief Engineer klefs
and a crew of % men. Kleis, he said,
over and over again, was 1.-The most i'm
portant of ALL" Then he told how the
crew spent the time.
ION board they busted themselves
with the machinery, for practically all
of them are mechanics. They played
cards. and they had their singing and
their sleeping and their sitting about,
and the time passed.
BEST of all, they-all of us. in fact
| liked the submerging. Unpleasant?
Indeed it was not. 1t was just like
sinking into sort of blue nest. We
open the portfolios, and then through
the glass we could see the fish and the
formations of the sea, and always we
listened. listened. listened.
How do we listen? There are
| aboard two micr0phones and with
them we We're able to hear the whis-
Ting of a buoy six miles off when we
We're under water. And Just before we
came up about thirty miles from the
Virginia capes, We We're able to hear
the ringing of Il bell buoy six miles
| from us
THE screw of a ship we could hear
quite plainly while it was yet safe
distance from us. More than hearing
it, We could tell whether it was a
cruiser or a destroyer. 1t was quite
fascinating to listen so.
Details of the Trip.
Captain koenig did not take the
| Deutschland around Scotland. as has
been conjectured. He came straight
through the Channel. he said.
we left Bremerhaven at noon on
June IA. We proceeded quietly to Hell
goland there we stayed four days
There We're three reasons for that: No
ship proceeds all the WAY after start
| ing. Il IS too easy to calculate when
she may be expected at some given
place. So we lay in wait a while
Then. too. we wanted to train the men
| During those four days we drilled and
! taught them hard, and when once more
we proceeded we had capable sub
marine crew.
Again, we had to trim the cargo.
| That must always be done after
start is made. We must shift things
about and stow them away. And every
thing needs to be tested. All worked
nicely.
we carried $50 tons of fuel oil. OF
that we have % tons left-mOre than
enough to take us back-and we shall
not ship any more here. Then we car
ried many tons of oxygen and twenty
tons of fresh water, of which we had
ten left
THE last time we submerged was
as we We're nearing the Virginia capes
and we saw an American boat APP
preaching. We thought it was fruit
boat so we just dipped under for the
last time The men We're always glad
when we did that-it made such
smooth travelling. The Deutschland
scarcely rolls at all under water
''And that about completes the story
of the voyage. We travelled, we saw
ships and submerged. we Travelled
again on the surface and at last we
arrived"
The Deutschland. built by the Krupp
Germania works. cost 100000 This
voyage will pay for her. he said.
Boat Mass of Machinery
AS described by DIR. John c. Travers,
assistant L. s. health officer. who was
taken through the boat by Captain
koenig. the DeutSchand'S interior APP
pears to be mainly a mass of machin-
cry. She has but one deck below and
a seventeen-foot depth of hold for her
cargo. DR. Travers descended through
the forward hatch, where he found
the crews quarters, hunks on either
side of narrow paSSageway leading
to compartments occupied by the cap
tain and his two officers. The cap
tain's room is scarcely six feet square
and barely high enough for man
to stand.
1t is furnished all in metal, with
the exception of small oak desk.
Directly beneath the officers quarters
is the dynamo which stores electrical
energy to drive the vessel when sub
merged
Next DIR. Travers was taken into
| the officers messroom. scarcely larger
than the staterooms, with a galley
built with all the economy of space
of Pullman dining-ear kitchen. Aft
| the meSSroom. about one-third the
ships length from her stern. is the
submerging machinery and two peris-
| copes.
Calls 1t Amazing Sight.
II never saw such n mass of ma
chinery in my life" said DR. Travers.
1T was an amazing sight and | doubt
if it would mean much except to the
engineer who designed it. There
seemed to be 5000 different pieces,
an inexplicable tangle of FURNISHED
copper and glistening steel"
Aft of the suhmerging machinery
were the submarines two powerful
Diesel oil engines which propel her
on the surface.
Captain Koenig told the doctor that
while on the surface the noise of the
machinery was almost deafening.