The sun., 1919-01-27
HOW U-BOATS SANK
5 US. WAR VESSELS
Ticonderoga's Captured Of
ficers Tell Of Battle and Life
on Raiding Submarine.
1883 GOT THE JACOB JONES
Cant. Schrader Declared He
Torpedocd the Tampa
Radio Told of War End.

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wAsHiNaroN, Jan. 26.-The American
testroyer Jacob Jones' sunk off the Irish
coast by German submarine December
l 1917, was torpedoed by the U-53. the
vessel which visited Newport. r. l.. in
the summer OF 1916 and later harried
allied merchant shipping off the New
England coast.
This fact was disclosed In the report
q, rieuts. T.. l.. Muller and J. II. Fulcher,
=. $ y. who were captured by the
| I'.I52 which sank the cargo transport
Tlconderoga September 30, 1918, and re-
| leased when the German submarine flo
lila was surrendered November "A after
they had spent nearly two months on the
submersble in American waters and at
the German submarine base at Kiel.
The report, made public tonight by
the Navy Department showed also that
the German officer commanding the C-o3
when the Jones was destroyed, Capt.
,oe Schrader, was aboard the boat when
Il was at Newport. He there saw Lieu
tenant Commander David Worth Bagley,
| brother of the wife of Secretary Dan
els and commander OF the Jacob Jones.
can officers that he had recognized Bag
lev in the dory OF the sinking destroyer
and sent out wireless call for aid be-
fore leaving the scene. A note appended
TO the report, presumably by Vice-Ad-
miral Sims, said such a call was picked
I'D at Queenstown. but that its origin had
been n mystery.
U-iS2 Rnidcd shipping Here.
Tho C-l52. which after sinking the
-iconderoga and taking Muller and
Fulcher aboard. continued to American
waters TO raid shipping. encountered the
U-53 on her way back to KEEL after all
German submarines had been recalled
near the end of the war.
Besides telling OF the destruction of
the Jacob Jones, Capt. Won SChrader
said that six weeks earlier in the Bristol
Channel he had sunk an American es-
ccrt ship. believed TO have been the for
me- coast guard cutter Tampa. which
went down with all hands on board, and
rad fred torpedo at the American scout
cruiser Chester.
The Tampa was sunk September 20.
and the Navy Department said there
was no evidence that the U-5S was in
the vicinity. The Chester was not hit.
The two American officers in their
Joint report to Admiral Sims told
GetaleQ StOry OF events tIlcli
stay on the U-152 and on the submarine
mother ship Kronprinz Heinrich in kiel
harSor They spoke also Of their unique
experience in being tho only passengers.
80 far as known, to have travelled from
Germany to Harwlch, England. with the
fotilla of enemy submarines surren-
dered two weeks after the signing of the
armistice.
The Ticonderoga. which was going to
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IL army personnel in addition to her
naval crew, had fallen behind her con-
voy In misty weather when she was
attacked with shrapnel fire by the C-l52
which fred forty shots, demolishing the
radio house and killing four members of
the inch gun crew before the cruiser
Galveston hove in sight and drove the
enemy off.
Second Attack sunk TicOnderOga.
More than an hour later the U-l62
reappeared and pounded the Ticonderoga
with forty more shots, which finally
reached the engine and fire rooms. The
order to abandon ship was given, but
e sheet hoisted in the rigging as
t.sn of surrender was not needed by
.he submarine. and, according to the
report, Fulcher waved a pillow slip
from the deck" The captain OF the
transport had been wounded. as had
Fucher and Muller. the executive off,
csr. and Fulcher, who was first assist
ant engineer, agreed there was nothing
10 DO but surrender as many OF the
men aboard had been killed.
After the Ticonderoga went down the
C-i52, after fishing out barrels of po-
tatoes and onions" from the floating
sreckage. picked up Muller. who was
taken for the commander of the ship.
and later Fulcher. The report said that
Capt Franz Of the C-boat was under
the impression that the after gun COT
the ransport) had continued firing
after the sheet had been hoisted."
Many wounded men on RATS or in the
water pleaded with the Germans to be
taken aboard. as they had no food or
water or chance OF life II left to their
fate but Franz told them he had room
FOR no more and cast them adrift.
Muller and Fulcher made no complaint
OF their treatment aboard the subma-
s.ne, which was outward bound from
Klel for the American coast on her sec
ond trip and which continued into the
gulf Stream on the lookout for allied
shipping.
Neutral Sunk Despite Orders.
First news of tho armistice negotia-
tons came by radio with the message:
Engage men-of-war only. The mer-
chant war IL ended" The Americans
we're told by the German officers that
his was "the first act OF our new
Government"
On October IL, however. the U-152
encountered and sank the Norwegian
nark Stinnder of tho Newfoundland
coast leaving the crew IN their boats
1900 miles from land
Two days later an unarmed ship was
hred at but a cruiser or destroyer
drove tas U.boat under and dropped
depth bombs. Several duels with armed
tH'ps occurred later the results OF
which the prisoners did not learn, and
or October go came a radio order "All
submarines return TO KEEL" which was
obsyed
II was not until November II that
TIE C-l52 reached the North Sea mine
barrage through which II passed on
tA surface The following day Capt.
franz announced that the armistice had
been signed and the war was over. Inc
report added
All hands Heem,d pleased"
That night in the Skagerack the U-53
va encountered and the story of the
tnSlns % the Jacob Jones was heard,
Ite last report from the U-53 was that
t1e was headed for Swedish waters to
Nern rather than return to Germany.
only ten Of the eighty in the crew Of
NE U-l52 voted to intern. Capt. Franz