Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-07-10
Jacob Lowenkopf on
Board Submarine Chaser
Oft Halifax

A very interesting letter was re-
ceived recently at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Lowenkopf of Keas-
hey. from their son Jacob A. Lowen-
kopf, who Is 10Y aboard a subma-
line chaser.
In his letter to his parents, Lowen-
kopf gives a very vivid picture of how
one of the kaiser's deadly U-boats was
sunk by his crew off the coast Of
Halifax a short time ago.
Lowenkopf, though only eighteen
years old, has already been in serv-
ice over a year. He enlisted In the
u. s. N. r.. F. last May, but was not
called for active service until Octo-
Der. He was sent to Pelham Bay and
there remained for almost nine
months. His promotion was rapid
and he was soon given the rating Of
a third-class quartermaster.
A few months g six new subma-
rine chasers were manned and Low
enkopf was fortunate enough to get
on one of them as a third-class quar-
termaster. The six submarines were
sent to the Canadian waters near Hal
flax to do oas duty. Lowenkopf is
on board the 8. c. No. 241. He grad
uated from the Woodbridge High
School with the class of 1917.
His letter follows:
Dear Brother:
Twas a foggy. damp morning when
the s. C.'s 24O, 241 and 247 pulled out
OF Halifax and little did they know
what was in store for them. We went
out about ten miles and then amidst
the mist and fog waited patiently for
u convoy to come out Of the har-
Dor. After waiting for perhaps half
hour we got impatient and started
back to the harbor. We met our con-
voy after travelling for about a half
! hour and proceeded out agin in our
| convoy position. Three s. c. boats
spread out with the convoy following
closely at u stern. I being off watch
was below n asleep when like q
shot from out of the heavens the gen.
eral alarm sounded and we all turned
out as usual, each man taking his
position at the gun n other places.
The depth bombs were dashed down
as 1t was rough and little did our gun
ner realize there would be any use
for them.
A loud report rang out and in the
course Of a few minutes a telephone
! message came from the 247 saying
that they had encountered a subma-
rine and sunk 1t with their depth
bomb. Everyone was on their toes
and looking for signs of more when
a torpedo was reported running
alongside of us headed for a trans
port on our starboard bow. The trans
port swung out and the torpedo con-
tinued on her path, harmless. Fol-
lowing the wake of the torpedo came
the deadly submarine with her con-
ming tower above the water seeing
what effect her torpedo had on the
transport. We named our Glib gun.
I was gun pointer and was dying to
pull the lanyard but no orders were
given, that's military discipline. Our
executive officer manned the depth
bomb gun n after running along
side the submarine for about five min
utes, we shot them off and n went
over each side. The one on the star
board side landed about thirty feet in
front of the sub and In the course of
six seconds a loud report was heard
on either side and the submarine was
struck by the starboard bomb and
the periscope and a lot of black OBJ
jects was seen flying along with the
geyser of water caused by the explo-
sion of the charge and Alasl no sub
was seen again. We put them out of
order for good. Thank God"
Work was resumed reloading the