Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1917-10-31

fiIckefed ~ from time to time until
daybreak Ike lantern IN a lffeboat.
Neither Vessel Used ounfsrs.
Neither submarine nor destroyer
had used gunfire. 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.
4Oniy two days before the x had
had a better brush with SUBJ and
may have got her; shippers put In
the claim on evidence as good. She
was steaming In the same area, I'M
der Like conditions, when at ten min
utcs past eight III the evening she
sighted a pronounced wake. One could
even estimate the speed at which the
submarine s.,Ia r, had been submerged-about
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
wnke, two more to allow for the
subs run beyond--and she tripped
the pump. With the charge, which
was set for go feet, was dropped 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 X 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 Aer wing
the steamer Pentwy, bound for Man.
chester. At quarter to eight Cap
tain Lyons sent a quartermaster aloft
to the main track to clear a fouled
commission pennant. Scarcely had
the Quartermaster reached 1t when he
called down to the watch on the after
deckhouse. 'Perisc0pe, 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
the quartermaster though, oddly, In
visible both to the bridge and the fore
top lookout. The periscope seemed
headed westward, and she at once
started to submerge. Within 20 Sec
onds, as the destroyer came to gen.
eral quarters, first one torpedo, instant
ly followed by second, radiated from
the point where she had vanished.
Both were making surface runs, for
the subs coming tower hatch still
must have been near the surface. They
threw spray up fully 20 feet, clearly
visible against the choppy sea. All
hands on the bridge and decks saw
them-as did the -, astern; for she
swung sharply to starboard, present
ing her tail to them. At the same mo-
ment the -- sounded six blasts on
her whistle, followed by two, to mean
that the attack was being made to
port.
Both torpedoes missed the -
but by the smallest margin. The -,
making high speed, swung with full
left rudder toward the submarine. At
five minutes past nine o'clock third
torpedo was fired at the convoy. ap-
parently from another submarine,
about 200 yards ahead Of the first. 1t
approached from the broad on the
IS beam, also making surface
run at about the same range as the
first two, and missed.
"But now the - was in sight, some
four miles distant, ready to relieve
the Of her convoy. She, too,
made full Roadway on signal, Make all
speed to us; submarine in sight : and
searched in the vicinity Of the -.
while the - followed the subs
Sticks. The first wake tended east,
but in ten minutes lost itself among
the whitecaps. The second and plain
er one led westward, irregularly. as II
the sub had been zigzagging. A
depth charge was dropped at It's emo,
but half hours search found proof
of nothing. The really had saved
herself by quick and efficient hand
ling.
1.-THE IS adventure with the
steamship TarQuah cannot be TOLD I'M
til that fiivver comes into port. The
49,, and - had a hand in
It; and the flrst's account Of the sink