The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-04
HEROIC WORK
OF THE H o. yM||P|||C'.
| Carried More Soldiers Than
Any Other Transport
During War
SANK ONE BIG
GERMAN SUBMARINE
Ranmed the Enemy Boat and Cut Off
one End-At Least Seven Attacks
On Her While Carrying American


LONDON, Dec. 5 Associated Press
Dodging German submarines Ill the hedl-
terranian, trying to save sinking warships
in the North Atlantic, and fighting of
vicious U-boat attacks while carrying Am
erican troops are some of the achieve
ments credited to the White Star liner
Olympic during her adventurous career
Of the wartime These were only incl
dents of her experience, because, on ae-
count of her great passenger capacity, she
was steadily and faithfully keeping to
the task of transporting men and mate
rial for the armies in Europe. First 1t
was Chinese coolies for road building, then
Farmer boys from Canada to replace the
losses of Nimy Ridge, and finally many
thousands of Americans to face the Ger
mans on the western battlefront.
Her work during the Galllpoli cam
paign,' writes a member of the crew to
the Daily News, when she carried about
5000 troops-at that time the greatest
number ever carried by any shlp--follow-
ing upon her gallant attempt off the north
of Ireland to tow the water-legged dread
nought, Audacious, was sufficient to put
her in the first rank of transports, but
her subsequent work In bringing Canadi'
an troops and Chinese labor battalIons,
and then her wonderful career since
Christmas, 1917, when she arrived IN New
York for her first load of American troops
| must put her in class by herself as
| trooper -
| She has carried well over 100000 PEG
| pie while on war service
at would not be correct to say thai
| Captain Hayes has brought her through
without o scratch, but her scars airs
marks of honor She bent and fractured
| SOME of her plates when, in the darkness
early one morning she strafed' one o
Germany's finest U-boats.
The Olympic had most of her adven
| lures while she was carrying American
troops During March. April, and May
1918. The German submarine command
ers made at least seven daring attacks OF
her. Not once did the enemy have tim
| to launch a torpedo, for in every cas-
he was greeted by slx-inch shell or on
/ OF the destroyers was on his track wit
/ her depth charges. Perhaps some of Gen
+ many's missing submarines are now lynn
below the track of the Olympic.
"The most thrilling experience whic
the Olympic had took place in the darb
ness of early morning OF May, 1918, nea
the entrance to the English Channel
was just about four o'clock when tn
look out man picked out of the almos
total darkness the outline of lurkin
submarine which was lying on the surface
, Immediately after his warning shout on
OF our forward guns blazed out and tn
ship, with her helm hard over, spu
around like a great racing yacht an
crashed into the enemy.
1.-The blow was, of course, not clea
lone, or there would have been few su
vivors from the submarine. Judging frol
the damage on the bows OF the ship whe
; dry locked a few days later the blow c,
5 off one end of the submarine The re
: drifted past the stern of the 0lympi
[ and one of the gun crews on the poo
: planted 6-inch shell squarely into
One of the destroyers in the CISCO
: dropped behind and by the light of st
! shells picked up 81 survivors three
!. whom died on the way to port The tot
9 crew of the submarine was over 90