Cheyenne record., 1916-07-20

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open water.
Eyes" laughing heartily. ..yes. each
tifnE fhete'was a reason.
'.rhe longest we actually stayed I'M
der was that ten. hourSsin the EngliAh
,cifhnnsl, hut I'VE could stay four days.
AZ the end Of. that dIhe our batteries,
wound IS 8 sXhadsted. and no woaid
.haRs 36 rtse and; recharge them. Dur
4nk.&bs entire trip we. travelled total
Of Hfiefy ,43leAs fhder' ws2teg.s !
Asfax.as the physical eject On the
ships 9eHkAny IL concerned. we Could
remain forever. We can stibmerge fifty
fathoms-three hundred feet-but as a
matter Of fact we never went nearly
that deeA M probably never sball.r
5jss.. Liked shs submsr1ine. j = i 1
THOSE on the Deutschland besides
himself were First Mate KrapuhL Sec
ona Mate Gyring. Chief Engineer Kleis
sandsa crew, of 25 men. Kleis, he said,
over and over again, was ''the most Inn
portant Of AL Then he told How the.
crew spent the time.
"On 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. .g ~
''Best Of all, they-all of us, in fact
liked the submerging. Unpleasantf
Indeed it was not. It 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 microphones, and with
them we were able to hear the whis-
Ting of buoy six miles of when we
were under water. And just before we
came up about thirty miles from the
Virginia capes, we were able to hear
the ringing Of bell buoy six miles
from us.
"The screw Of ship we could hear
quite plainly while 1t was yet safe
distance from us. More than hearing
1t, we could tell whether it was
cruiser or a destroyer. It was quite
fascinating to listen so.
Details Of the Trip.
Captain Koenfg did not take the
Deutschland around Scotland, as has
been conjectured. He came straight
through the Channel, he said.
1--WE left Bremerhaven at noon on
June IA. We proceeded quietly to Hell
goland; there we stayed four days.
There were three reasons for that: No
ship proceeds all the way after start
ing. It is too easy to calculate when
she may be expected at some given
place. So we lay in wait 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, ave had to trim the cargo.
That must always be done after a
start is made. We must shift things
about and stow them away. And every
thing needs to be tested. All worked
nicely.
1--WE carried 1sO tons of fuel oil. OF
that we have 95 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 were nearing the Virginia capes
and we saw an American boat ap-
preaching. We thought it was fruit
boat SO we just dipped under for the
last time. The men were 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"
Germania works, cost $5O0,OOO. This
voyage will pay for her, he said.
Boat Mass Of Machinery.
As described by DR.. John G. Travers,
assistant U. s. health officer, who was
taken through the boat by Captain
Koenig. the Deutschland's interior ap-
pears to be mainly a mass of machin-
cry. She has but one deck below and
seventeen-foot depth of hold for her
CdFSU. LIZ. 1IdNSTS uCSCSuUSu IlEUuSA
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.
It 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.
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