Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-10
ARRIVAL OF SUBMARINE
HAS BECOME REALITY
Long Expected, Ridicued and Fabulous as Sea Serpent
kalsers Underwater Boat Finally Reaches Port
After Hazardous Journey of 1000 Miles
ny GILBERT HlItSCH.

~ GiLUcltT HlNSCU.
BALTIMORE. MD, July 3-In Il driv.
inS rain and between vivid flashes OF
lightning. the German merchant super,
submarine Deutschland came to ancho,
OFF quarantine here at 1915 o'clock to.
night.
The arrival of the Deutschland was
as dramatic as her trail-blazing dasl
across the Atlantic. Conveyed by tn,
tug Thomas i. Timmins. the subma
rine made her way up Chesapeake Bay
under her own steam.
Long expected, ridiculed. fabulous as
the sea serpent or the Flying Dutch
man. the Deutschland became a reality
TO the watchers or Cape Henry a,
exactly 1920 this morning. She SLOWLY
made her way up Chesapeake Bay
through a network OF inquisitivo ships
and dropped her Inudhook off uu;Iran
tine She is ready to so through the
maHcs of red tape of the quarantine
and customs officials and proceed to
her dock at the pier of the Eastern
Forwarding Company ut Locust Point
where she will discharge her cargo.
She is the largest submarine anoat.
The largest German war models are
less than 900 feet long. But this sub
marine Of commerce is ais feet long,
exactly onc-third Of the length of
tho largest merchant vessels anoat-
tho Naterland and the Impcrator.
The boat carries no passengers. Her
cargo consists entirely of dycstuns-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 seventeen feet, and Il was
largely because Of her depth that she
did not try to come nearer land when
she submerged.
She is commanded by Captain Kairir
and has crew OF twenty-ninc men.
Both captain and crew are drawn from
the German merchant fleet and no,
from the navy. The craft is ,Inarmed.
and is being treated by the United
States oillcials like any other mcr-
chant ship.
suDMERGIGS WHENEVER
VESSEL IS SIGHTED
1t is said that she submerged when
ever she saw any vessel on the chance
that II might be n warship The Eng
lish government was not among those
who regarded the trnnsatlantic sub
mcrsiblc as IL joke. The report is that
the Deutschland was chased for thirty
hours by English and French war
ships. She submerged and cludcd thcm
by travelling out Of her course 500
miles
The vessel has the record fur sub-
marine distance travel The longest
"TRIP previously made by any subma
r,nc was 1000 miles. from kicl to Con
s'antim"plc, made by the U-boat that
sank the British battlcship Majestic. II
is said that tho. Deutschland Travelled
i,lSo miles. l,NJo Of this bcinc. under
water.
She ran through tho North Sea sub
merged practically ull the time. She
was forced to submcrgc again for a
time when she got twu-thirds of the way
across, when she sighted a Dutch NOR
chant vessel in her path. and some GOO
miles OFT the Virginia coast she wos
frightened out to sea again for a dis
lance OF zoo miles by enemy warships.
i'ut ON hcr return she was able to come
to the surface, a hundred miles from
!and. aud was not forced to submcrr q
again.
The Deutschland was mot OF Cane
Henry by the tug Thomas T. 'rimmin.
or the Eastern Forwarding Compnuy
She had been waiting at the capes for
the past eleven days. And a couple Of
days ago Captain Hans T.. Hinsch. the
marine superintendent OF the ocean
Company" as the new mcr-
chant submarine line is called, went
oil board the Timmons. He is now di-
rccting the plotting OF tho Deutschland
up the bay.
PROVES THAT BI.UtkADE
tNUi NTS no NOTHING:
I'VE have proved" he told member,
Of the Virginia Pilots Association
that tho English blockade amounts "a
nothing. There will I've more s,,hma
rincs from Germany. They viii bc
making regular trips Just like the his.
liners from England
I'm few weeks VIC will have them
coming in at New York and other
ports"
This boat is in excellent condition.
She had only two mshaps. ami these
delayed her but slightly. She had iron.
bic with her motors and her under.
water lights. but she carried extra sun.
plies and tho trouble was quickly re-.
paired
The man who first sighted the
Deutschland was Captain James NJ
fcsmirc. who runs the motor tue Eco
OF the North German LLOYD. c,r,,;r
iilhSch, wanting n particularly efficient
crew for the Timmins when lie started
hcr on hcr vigil off the canes nficnn
days ago, picked Fcsmirc. and to-day 10
has shown that he doesn't rc-re, I,
by giving Fcsmirc a bonus for his yood
cyesisht.
fcsmirc is young fellow. twenty.
eight years old, with keen brown eve,
and tanned skin
we were lying in Lynnhaycn BAY
last night he said "AIy friend Fred.
erick Hayes and were koepjnc
watch on tho Timmins We were
standing together aft, looking out Ia
sea, when I saw some lights. though
dId anyway, but the next minute
wasn't sure. had made them ON,
through my glasses which are cspoci,l.
Iy sood and said TO HAYES what's
that"
ARRANGED TO FOOI.
ENEMY WAR VESSELS
Her lights rose up one above tho
other. FIRST very bright. and then III,
next minute they would be dimned