The sun., 1916-10-26

a chance Of you and your ship being
scuppered does not enter ones head
There are too many other things to think
about"
Follows the usual no ship like our
ehip talk, and a note OF where she was
at the time. "Then they ordered us to
attack. So We hustled of. Full Bore be-
ing the navigator and also having con.
troll OF all the guns. was on tho
bridge all the time. and remained for
twelve hours without leaving II at all.
When we got fairly close I sighted .
good looking Hun destroyer which 1
Thought ia like to strafe. You know.
its awful fun to know that you can
blaze or at real ship and do as
much damage as you like. Well. ia just
got their range on the guns and we'd
fired one round when some more OF our
desoryers coming from the opposite d.
rection got between ue and the enemy
and completely hlanketed u.s. So We had
to STOP. which was rather rot. Shortly
afterward they recalled us, s0 We
hustled back again. How any destroyer
got out Of Il IL perfectly wonderful.
Literally there were hundreds OF
shells IN the water all around us, from
I6 inch to 4 inch. and you know what big
spla sh a Is inch shell bursting In water
does make. We got washed thoroughly
by the spray. Just as We were getting
back whole salvo Of big shells fell just
in front Of us and short Of our big
ships The skipper and did some rapid
calculating as to how long II would take
them TO reload and FIRE again, the time
Of flight, &C., as We had to 90 right
through the spot. We came to the con-
ciusion that az they were short bit
they probably would 20 up . bit. but
they didn't.
Luckily. however. they altered the
DETECTION and the next shots fell right
astern OF us. Anyhow, We managed to
come out Of that row without tho ship
or a man on board being touched. It's
{ extraordinary the amount or KNOCKING
about big ships ran stand. One saw
them hit and they seemed TO be one mass
Of fame and smoke and you think
they're gone. nut when the smoke clears
away they ere apparently none the
worse and still firing away.
/ But TO see ship blow up 10 ter
r!ble and wonderful sight. An enormous
volume OF fame and smoke almost zoo
feet high. and great pieces OK metal. &C
blown sky high, and then. when the
smoke clears, not a sign OF the snip
saw boat o.. End.
We saw one other extraordinary sight
or course you know the North sea y
very shallow. we came across Hul
cruiser absolutely on eho, M. sn W y.
the bottom and MS DOW suck'ns w
about thirty rect OUT Oh tne wAteI. .e
little rurther on oes'roye' u" piee'
the same posi',oh'
couidnt oe c.rtain' pu,
think 4 saw your o,u sn'p eIAss .
ana oiax,ng away. out eApect so. ns.'
heard aoout tnat itom soHe .. 'ou
paN' me hisn. was iar anu va
"oIs' 'he Vi az. ~ vac p No.
igh,s tn. fr,ng seemed 40 much NOR,
a, nIvb, n. yo,, could 60. the dashe
iIgb,iny nm tho skv and I, seemed I,
make much n,ore noisc. and Won coul,
Ace the shins ON are an dblowins up.
20, course. We showed absolutely n,
lights one expectea TO he surprtsed an,
moment and eventually wa were. w
sudd.nIv found ourselves within I. 90
wards or two or three big Hun cruisers
They switched on their searchlirhts an
started firing Ike nothing on earth
Then they put their searchiights on us
but FOR some extraordinary reason di
! no, FIRE on rs. and as Of course We ver
,, going full epeed We lost them in n mo