The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-07-21
U.B0AT REACHES J. 5.
SUPERSUBMARINE DEUTSCH-
LAND MAKES TRIP OF 4,1sO
MILES IN 10 DAYS.
CARRIES 1000 TONS OF DYE
Craft Beats British Blockade and All
submersibIe Records-Chased 800
Miles by Enemy Warships-Journeys
Under Water 1900 Miles.

Baltimore, hid, July 10.-The Ger
man merchant supersubmarine
Deutschland has arrived In Chesapeake
bay.
Long expected, ridiculed, fabulous as
the sea serpent or the Flying Dutch
man, she became q reality to the watch
ers off Cape Henry at exactly 1:2O
Sunday and slowly made her way
through a network of inquisitive ships
and through the maZes of red tape OF
the quarantine and customs officials to
her dock at the pier of the Eastern
Forwarding company. Locust Point,
Baltimore.
She is the largest submarine afloat.
The largest German war models are
less than 300 feet long. But this sub
marine of commerce is 315 feet long,
exactly one-third the length of the
largest merchant vessels afloat-the
Vaterland and Imperator.
Carries Dyestuffs.
The boat carries no passengers. Her
cargo consists entirely c. dyestuffs-
u thousand tons of them. This keeps
her very low in the water when on the
surface. Her draft, when she was sight
ed, was II feet and it was largely be-
cause of her depth that she did not
try to come nearer land when sub
merged.
She is commanded by Captain Kali
rig and has q crew of % men. Both
captain and crew are drawn from the
German merchant fleet and not from
the navy. The craft is unarmed and
Is being treated by the United States
like any other merchant ship.
1t is said that she submerged when
ever she saw any vessel, on the chance
| that 1t might be q warship. The Eng
lish government was not among those
who regarded the transatlantic SUBJ
| mersible as n joke, and the report Is
that the Deutschland was chased for
80 hours by English and French war
ships. She submerged and eluded them
| by travelling out of her course 800
miles.
Makes Record Of 4,18o Miles.
Because she was forced to make this
| detour she has the record for subma-
rine distance travel. The longest trip
| previously made by any submarine was
the $500 miles, from Kiel to CONSTANT
nople, made by the Uboat that sank
the British battleship Majestic. 1t Is
said that the Deutschland travelled f.
$50 miles,! 30 miles Of this being I'M
der water. The trip was made In 10
days.
| She ran through the North sea SUBJ
merged practically all the time. She
| was forced to submerge again for n
time when she got two-thirds Of the
way across, when she sighted Dutch
merchant vessel in her path. And.
| some 600 miles off the Virginia coast,
she was frightened out TO sea again for
a distance of some 200 miles by enemy
warshlps. But on her return she was
able to come to the surface a hundred
miles from land and was not forced to
submerge again.
Met by Tug Of U. S.
The Deutschland was met off Cape
Henry by the tug Thomas +. Timmons
of the Eastern Forwarding company.
She had been waiting at the capes for
the past IL days. And a couple Of days
ago Capt. F. Hinsch, the marine super
intendent of the Ocean Transportation
company, as the new merchant marine
line is called, went on board the Tim
mons. He directed the plotting Of the
ship.
"We have proved" he told members
of the Virginia Pilots association
that the English blockade amounts
to nothing. There will be more sub
marines from Germany. They will be
making regular trips just like the big
liners from England in few weeks
We will have them coming I'm at New
York and other American ports"
This boat is In excellent condition
She had only two mishaps and these
delayed her but slightly. She hat
trouble with her motors and her I'm
derwater lights. but she carried extra
supplies and the trouble was quickly