The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1916-07-14
GERMAN SUBMARINE
CROSSES ATLANTIC
MERCHANT VESSEL ARRIVED
SUDAY NIGHT.
First Vessel of Submarine Type to
Cross 0cean-Ran British Block
ade-Captain Claims English
Sea Rule Broken.

The German merchant super sub
marine, Deutschland, came to anchor
in Baltimore harbor, Chesapeake Bay,
on the night of Sunday, July 9th, at
1918 o'clock.
Long expected, ridiculed, fabulous
as the flying Dutchman, the Deutsch-
land became a reality to the watchers
off Cape Henry at exactly 1890. She
slowly made her way up Chesapeake
Bay, through a network of inquisi-
tive ships and dropped her mud hook
off Quarantine. She was ready to go
through the mazes of red tape of the
quarantine and customs officials and
proceed to her dock at the pier of the
Eastern Forwarding Company at Lo-
Gust Point, where she will discharge
her cargo.
She is the largest submarine afloat.
The largest German war models are
less than 300 feet long. But this sub
marine of commerce is 3l5 feet long,
exactly one-third the length of the
largest merchant vessels ahoat-the
Vaterland and the Imperator.
She carried no passengers. Her car
go consists entirely of dyestuffs-a
thousand tons of them. This keeps
her very low in the water when riding
on the surface. Her draft when she
was sighted was II feet, and it was
largely because of her depth that she
did not try to come to the land when
submerged.
She is commanded by Capt Kairig
and has crew Of 80 men. Both cap
tain and crew are drawn from the
German merchant feet and not from
the navy. The craft is unarmed and
is being treated by the United States
officials like any other merchant yes
sci.
Her commander told the pilot that
she left German port on June %, that
he had 1000 tons of cargo and guam
tity of mail aboard and brought mes
sage from Emperor William to Presi-
dent Wilson.
The cargo is said to consist of dye
stuffs and medicine consigned to a
Baltimore firm.
1t is said that she submerged when
ever she saw any vessel, on the chance
that it might be warship. The Eng
lish government was not among those
who regarded the transatlantic sub
mersible as a joke, and the report is
that the Deutschland was chased for 30
hours by French and English warships
She submerged and avoided them by
travelling out of her course 800 miles.
Because she was forced to make
this detour she has the record for
submarine travel. The longest trip
previously made by any submarine
was the $500 miles from Kiel to Con-
stantinople, made by the U-boat that
sank the British battleship the Ma
jestic. 1t is said the Deutschland tray-
eled 4,1SO miles, 1900 of this being
under water.
She ran through the North Sea sub
merged practically all the time. She
was forced to submerge again for
time when she got two-thirds of the
way across, when she sighted dutch
merchant vessel in her path. And
some six hundred miles off the Virgin
ia coast she was frightened out to sea
again for distance of some 200 miles
by enemy warships. But on her re-
turn she was able to come to the sur
face a hundred miles from the land
and was not forced to submerge again,
The Deutschland was met off Cape
Henry by the tug Thomas F. Timmons
Of the Eastern Forwarding Company.
She had been waiting at the capes for
the past eleven days. And couple of
days ago Capt. F. Hinsch, the marine
of the Ocean Trans
portation Company, as the new mer-
chant marine line is called, went on
board the Timmons.
This is the first successful ATTEMPT
of merchant vessel to run the Eng
ilsh blockade. The captain is elated
over the success of the trip and de-
'"~os that the English sea rule is at
last broken.
The vessel will leave for Bremen in
the near future with a cargo Of nickel
and crude rubber.