Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-01-14
be leaving here about sunday q o
early next week,

early next week,
| Escorts are not going out with
'convoys any more so there are quite
u good many w. S, boats In here and
to relieve the congestion the ships
have been sent out TO different ports
for few days stay, We got under
way the 18th of November with the
| Cytherla and Yamacraw and after
some rough old seas anchored ut
Alger, Algiers. the 10th of Novem-
ber. Liberty was granted from $3.50
q, m. to 9:S0 D. m. The French |
people here sure were good to us
and even the little tots on seeing
us on the street would smile and
say "Americaine." We stayed there
until 2:l5 p. M. the 2Srd of Noyem-
ber, when we got under way and
came back to Gibraltar,
We have been working In the Med
iterranean and using Gibraltar as
our base ever since March s, Dur
ing this time we have escorted 304
ships and lost .. That is about the
best record OF any escort vessel on
this side. On the 18th of May at
GAO p. m. subs attacked our convoy
: and hit one ship but did not sink
her. We did not find any trace
Of this sub, At $40 p. M, the same
day another attack, one ship hit and
sunk. The U. S. s, Venetia got on
tho track OF the sub and dropped
; depth charges. A torpedo just missed
. -FOUR bow by a few feet, so We turned
Il and got on the wake OF this sub ana
from the second depth charge drop
o ned there were two distinct reports.
II We we're sure that we at least dam
aged the sub. At 10 p. m. another
II attack and one ship hit but floats
u When attacked the ships In con
IL yoy scatter and make 1t hard for the
ID escorts to protect them and give th'
10 subs n good chance. On May iltf
10 at a. nj. our convoy was attacked
W and one ship sunk. No trace OF SUB
lie At 1926 a. m. same day another at
+ tack but no damage. The U. 5. 5
yenetia got on the wake of this sub
es She came to the surface part OF tn
mt time and outran the Venetia. Late
Id this sub was sunk in the Adriati'
to but two Of her crew were saved
Ist They told about attacking our coz
a voy in the Mediterranean and sal
lat II the Venetia had only been taste
90 boat she could have gotten the SUI
M The sub that we damaged WI
we living on top OF the water the me-
I'D day unable to submerge when I"
ew French hydroplanes dropped chars
me on her causing her to put into Ca
er' tigina. Spain. She was the u-S
sea that sank the Lusitania. We &
ma part credit for putting her out
MS commission. This has been about
ing of our encounters but we would III
ats to have sunk a good many subs.
'he We have been to good ma
oie ports In the Mediterranean, includil
ne Villafranche, France; Genoa, ltai
Tue Bizerta, Tunis; Alger. Algeris, A
lhe in the Atlantic to Tangers. Morocc
'ei Casa Blanca, Morocco; Pembro
ap- Docks, Wales. Berehaven, be
MS Island in Bantry Bay, ireland; re
'oii Ia Delgada, Azores Island, and Ha
heh ilton, Bermuda. / think that
" wrote you while we were In Liso'
m' Portugal, undergoing repairs. wv
slS there about six weeks.
What the navy has done In
."p war is not known to the public
probably won't ever be known.
wv said that on account Of non-public
oN the U. s. navy is efficient as 1t
- today. 1t has been termed A
Talk Navy" The boys in the ar
rate every bit of the credit they
hut naturally after seeing so mi
,ests the paper about the army boys
mere big announcements that cert
got boy had been killed and then see
Ad- lust a small notice in the papers
as the U. s. s. Tampa had been 81
pers' with all hands, 1t makes a fei
MINI feel little bit blue. True that 81
ne people don't realize what. the n
tooa is doing, but perhaps they Will W
sit up some of these days. Then al
gooo we read about all the good times
MES fellows In the training stations
IN as army camps are having that 1t ms
B. us homesick at times. People
ever not care about the uniform so m
lght- when we we're in the States the
9 OF time and sometimes ] think tina
plain will be that way some time after
) fei- war Is over. 1t doesn't worry
loney though as my friends know VIII
cap am. know surely that mother
q all won't think that ] am drur