Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-11-10
PATROL WORK IS FULL OF
THRILLS FOR MEN or NAVY

pllnker, repeating over and over. TOR
pedoes !-T0rpedoes ? In five sbn
changed her course 10 degrees faster
east and at half-past one the flush
decks of single stacker of about
4,oOO tons loOmed over the cocoon mat.
ing and thrust men about gun.
"She was now nearing the freight.
ef' DOW on, bit to port Suddenly
out OF the darkness to the right a liyid
Deam rushed straight and simmer
ing at her under the sea. We put over
Iuii right rudder. The torpedo passed
close aboard across his bows. TO the
lert' Just ahead of the Kloto, and as
the luminous wake receded like muf-
fled searchlight 1t seemed TO brea;
spent upon the near horizon. ANY
now said the captain afterward IT
was worth crossing the ocean 70 SEQ
and feel that instant. 1t made those
roses seem lot nearer.
"The destroyer began to circle the
hioto at high speeds, with alternate
right and left rudder. Her blinker
stammered on, that she had been hlt in
the port quarter abaft the engine room.
Then the lights ceased. Ten minutes
after two loaded lifeboats emerged ont
of the starboard darkness. They held
% men, including the second officer
and tall engineer, wounded in the
leg. Soon after two o'clock all were
safe aboard the X. She continued 70
circle the steamer, which was slowly
sinking by the stern. Alarm of the dis |
aster had been flashed to adjacent pa
trolls. The Y nosed into sight and |
stood by, likewise II. M. S. -. who
signaled that she had taken aboard 10 !
more survivors and the Kioto's i'm
petuous captain--he that returned to
the wreck. At 20 minutes past 3
the freighter sank, leaving only float
ing wreckage and a Coston light, which
nlckered up from time to time until
daybreak like lantern in a lifeboat.
Neither submarine nor DESTROYER
had used guntire. The German was
not even sighted. Only two torpedoes
were known to have been fred-the
one which crossed the KS bow, and
the one which settled the Kioto.
only two days before the X had
had better brush with SUBJ and
may have got her; shippers put in
the claim on evidence as good, She
was steamlng In the same area, I'M
der like conditions, when at ten min
utes past eight in the evening she
sighted a pronounced wake. One could
even estimate the speed at which the
submarine had been submerged-about
eight knots,
The X worked up to full speed,
turned with left rudder, and ran down
on the right hand side of the slick.
In six minutes she had reached its
head ready TO drop depth charge;
four minutes to run to the end of the
wake, two more to allow for the
subs run beyond--and she trlpped II
the pump. With the charge which
was set for so feet, was dropped q cal
cium torch pot to mark the place. The
explosion audibly Jared the blowers,
and within three minutes bubbles
swirled to the surface. But in the 20
minutes that the Y circled the vicinity.
hoping the injured enemy would rise to
the surface, no further sign of damage
was revealed.
Four days later the - turned her
convoy over to the - at two hours
before daylight, and returned to her
regular patrol. About five o'clock in
the morning she took under her wing
the steamer Pentwy, bound for Man.
chester. At quarter to eight Cap
tain Lyons sent quartermaster aloft
to the main track to clear a fouled
commission pennant. Scarcely had
the quartermaster reached it when he
called down to the watch on the after
deckhouse, 'Periscope, two points
abaft the port beamr The thing was
1900 to 5000 yards from the -,
who was 400 yards ahead of the -,
one point on her port bow. The whole
body of the submarine was distinct to