The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-21
Super submarine Homeward
Bound With Two Million Dollar
Cargo Is Forced To Return To
Her Dock In New London
GERMAN EMBASSY ADMITS
|. r THAT DELAY IS SERIOUS
freight Carried BY Underwater
Merchant Craft Believed Of
Enormous importance To Fa-
therland Where Rubber Needed

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w l8-On her way to Bremen
with a cargo vitality important to
the German cause the famous Teu-
tonic merchant submarine Deutsch-
land Thursday night ran down the
T. T. Scott, jr., one Of the two
tugs that were towing her to the
open sea, drowning FIVE members
of the tugs crew and damaging
THAT craft.
Captain Richard Kocnig, COM
mander of the submarine, which
put about and returned to New
London, Immediately after the &C
cident, declared himself inconSol-
able. 1T was terrible to lose the
lives of those good men and feel
more than | can say regarding the
affair" said the submarine captain.
U. S. Will Investigate At Once
The federal authorities will be-
gin an investigation Of the accident
Immediately.
That Germany urgently needs
| the cargo aboard the super-sub
marine Deutschland, is admitted by
the German embassy. Embassy
officials make no secret Of the fact
that the German government had
placed hopes on an early delivery
of the cargo, which includes rub
Der, nickel and other commodities
of which there is a famine in
Germany. The delay in getting
the cargo across the ocean will be
keenly felt
Five lives were lost in the early
morning darkness near Race Rock,
off the western end of Fishers
Island, at the mouth of Long ISL
and Sound. when the German su-
perSubmarine Deutschland. ready
o speed for Bremen, rammed the
tug taking her from Der dock to
the open sea.
The Deutschland left New Lon
don at thirty Friday aiorning
and the tugs carried her rapidly
toward the sea. The fatal collision
occurred an hour later when the
big submarine and her two accom-
panying tugs had reached point
about a mile inside Race Rock.
Suddenly, in some yet unexplained
manner. the nose of the Deutsch-
land struck the tug in the stern,
lifting the after part of the tug
bodily out of the water, and drove
the bow of the tug beneath the
surface.
Immediately the boilers exploded
and the tug. torn badly, began to
sink and went to the bottom i'll a
few moments.
Only One Man Saved
Captain Hinsch, representative
| of the Eastern Forwarding Com
pany, American agents for the Sub
marine, was the only one OH board
the Scott who was saved. He was
thrown life belt and made his way
to the other tug, the Cassie,
The damage to the Deutschland
IS not serious. Immediately after
the accident, as soon as it was
found that no more survivors could
be located, the Cassie brought the
submarine back to New London.
She will probably be ready for sea
again in a few days.
Captain Koenig is considerably
,unnerved by the disaster and has
refused to talk of the collision be-
yond the statement given above.
The cause of the accident is mere
speculation. The water was
smooth, the sky clear and there
was a good moonlight. There is 4
possibility that the fault was with
the steering-gear of the Deutsch-
land. The captain Of the tug Cas-
sic says that he believes the Deu'
schland was caught in an eddy"