The Arizona copper camp., 1918-09-07

On our sixth trip saw H. M. s,
Goliath get it. She was struck three
times By torpedoes and then shelled.
The men were floundering around in
the water, with shrapnel cutting the
waves all around them. Cnly hum
dred odd of her crew were saved.
One day, off Cape Helles, during
our seventh trick at the Dardanelles,
we sighted a sub periscope just about
dinner time. The Prince George and
destroyer sighted the sub at the same
time, and the Prince George let go
two rounds before the periscope dis
appeared, but did not hit the mark.
Transports, battleships and cruisers
were thick around there, all at anchor,
and it was great place for a sub
to be.
In no time at all the destroyers
breezed out with their tails in the
air, throwing a smoke screen around
the larger ships. They hunted high
and low, all over the spot where she
had been sighted and all around it,
thinking to ram 1t or bring it to the
surface so we could take crack at
it. All the rest of the fieet-battle-
ships and weighed anchor
at once and steamed ahead at fuis
speed.
It was a great sight. Any new ship
coming up would have thought the
British and French navies had gons
crazy. We did not have any fixed
course, but were steaming as fast as
we could in circles and half circles,
and dashing madly from port to star
board. We were not going to allow
that sub to get straight shot at us,
but we. almost rammed ourselves
7, doing it. 1t was case of chase-tail
for every ship in the fleet.
| But the sub did not show itself
again that day, and we anchored
again. That night, while the destroy
ers were around the ships, we slipped
our cables and patrolled the coast
4 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 A
Turkish ship came up and, with any
kind of gunnery could have raked her
/ 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 III. M. s. Can
! opus, which has made such a 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
a 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 a
hot fire. on the Turkish positions to
! lighter the ship and shift her by the
conclusions of the guns. For a long
time they could not bulge 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
for periscope-tins, barrels, spars.
Dead horses generally float in the
water with one foot sticking up, and
we gave the alarm many time when
it was only some old nag on his way to
Davy's locker.
On the Cassard the Old Man posted
a reward of 80 francs for the first man
who sighted periscope. This was d
good idea, but believe me he would
have had trouble making the award,
4 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 Sec
ond's notice. But the reward was
never claimed.
During our eighth trick off Cape
Helles 1 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
me it was a sub on the port bow, but
[ only caught glimpse of the little
whirlpool where her periscope sub
merged. 1 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 tour ships and
was scared off by our guns, but [
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
all rushed on deck. There was the