The Carlisle independent., 1918-09-26

l again. That night, while the destroy
 CTS were around the ships, we slipped eur cables and patrolled the coast
 along the Australian position at Gaba Tepe, but We did not anchor. The following day the Albion went ashore in the fog, south of Gaba Tepe. | and as soon as the fog, lifted the Turks
 let loose and gave it to her hot. X | Turkish ship came up and, with any | kind of gunnery, could have raked her l fore and aft, but the Turks must
 have been pretty shy of gun sense,
 for they only got in one hit before
 they were driven off by H. NJ. S. Can opus, which has made such fine
 record in this war.
 Then the Canopus pulled in close to
 the Albion. got wire hawser aboard, and attempted to tow her out under
 ! heavy fire, but as soon as she started
 pulling. the cable snapped. The crew of the Albion were ordered aft and
 jumped Up on the quarter deck to
 try and shift the bow off the bank.
 At the same time the fore turret and the fore six-inch guns opened up q
 hot fire on the Turkish positions to lighter the ship and shift her by the concussions of the guns. For a long
 time they could not budge her. Then
 the Canopus got another hawser
 aboard and, with guns going and the crew jumping and the Canopus pulling,
 the old Albion finally slid off and both ships backed into deep water with little harm done to either. Then they returned to their old anchorages.
 At Cape Helles every one was wide awake. We were all on the lookout for subs and you could not find one man mapping. Anything at all passed fora periscope-tins, barrels, spars. Dead horses generally float in the water with one foot sticking up, and We gave the alarm many a time when it was only some old nag on his way to Davy's locker.
 On the Cassard the Old Man posted reward of 90 francs for the first man who sighted periscope. This was a good idea, but believe me he would have had trouble making the award, for every man on the ship would be sure to see it at the same time. Each man felt sure he would be the man to get the reward. The 14-pounders were loaded and ready for action on a sec ond's notice. But the reward was never claimed.
 During our eighth trick off Cape Helles l was amidships in the galley when I heard our two 14-pounders go off almost at the same time. Every body ran for his station. Going up the main deck to my turret a man told >lne 1t was q sub on the port bow, but l only caught a glimpse of the little whirlpool where her periscope sub merged. do not know why she did not let loose torpedo at us. The officers said she was trying to make the entrance to the Dardanelles and came up blind among our ships and was scared off by our guns, but I thought we had just escaped by the skin of our teeth. Later on our de- stroyers claimed to have sighted her off Gaba Tepe.
 At noon We were at mess when one Of the boys yelled, "She's hit" and we i all rushed on deck. There was the l British ship, Triumph, torpedoed and | listing away over to starboard. She | ~as ready to turn over in q few min 1 utes. One battleship is not supposed 1 to go to the assistance of another one | that has been torpedoed, because the | chances are the sub is still in the | neighborhood laying for the second slip with another torpedo. But one of the British trawlers went to the assistance of the Triumph to pick up the crew.
 We could see the crew jumping into the water Then we breezed out | toward the horizon, full speed ahead. l All about the Triumph was cloud of | black smoke, but when we looked l through the glass We could see she was | going down. Then our guns began to | lombard the Turkish positions and I I had to get busy. When 1 saw the I Triumph again she was bottom up. | She must have floated upside down | 1ol dIHiOSt udiI dli louT. lllcu Silp WeHI l down as though there was somebody | on thesbottom pulling her.
 When she went our Old Man banged | his telephone OF the bridge rail and swore at the Huns and Turks and | broke his telescope lens to bits. About fifty from the Triumph were lost.
 It was decided that the place was too hot for us with that sub running loose, and when they reported that afternoon that she was making her way south from Gaba Tepe to Cape Heiles ali of the fleet but the Majestic got under way, and the Majestic was the only ship left off the cape.
 They said the Majestic was then the oldest of the ships in that campaign, but she was the pride of the British fleet just the same. She was torpedoed off Cape Helles later on, when there were a number of men-of-war off the cape. The sea was crowded with men