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General quarters. the battle drill
was held every day at sea. and the
officers and men at look out stations
or at guns went through the drill i'll
manner that BODIED i'll for any U-boat
| that might have the temerity to pop its
pt riscope above the waves. All was
as orderly as drill when sailor
! from one of the guns rang out on tn"
afternoon of June Is. 1918. No Won
ME man will forget that day. Cap
| tain Yates Sterling II. who succeed
ed Commander Moses. was on the
bridge and to his cool action. the men
give credit for fooling the lurking sub.
which let fly Il torpedo that seemed to
miss the ship by Il matter of II few feet.
| The Vonne vas returning from France
aieAe al the time. the sub had sunk
another ship Il short time before we
! wing in wait among its victims life
boats. using them 10 lure on what it
expected would he its second victim.
/ Cap. Sterling not deceived however.
distinguishing between the sub and
! the life boats, and manenvering the
ship in Il manner to dodge the torpedo.
In the meanwhile our guns were not
! idle They fired broadsides at the
periscope. Again and again the ear
! splitting SalvoS rang ont until 1t dis
appeared. Depth bombs We're dropped
over the stern which resulted i'll Il
mighty spout Of water which we had
/ the pleasure of seeing several Ger
man bodies. and then We r0mped on,
tn March 9TH. 19lS. While firing 1t
{. floating spar, as we had orders To
tal1e 10 chances hut to shoot ut any
Ing tbst locked like sub. a shell
-. oded. killing two of the crew our
right and woundins several others.
aa September 9th. fa1S. when the
snip ran into tropical hurricane.
'9rcp Of tAe sga.W WAS washed over
.taad aad lost. storms are awful RI
"a. This one lasted - hours. We
could uej sleep ay caoii "a ding to=eai
1aa t. pat uala tack. The water XII
#ea deen IN an engine room. We
c5eia d. t#at..jes bat ta..', tie Tires anu
.aa it a,t. II is tarsitIe in lire
edoa IL mac - ID Storm eur light
..5f 1catat am eoarse sumo one
IS always getjfI, lHft OF scalded.
ono morning in December 1897. the
zip Va> about FORTY miles off the
Noya Sea,iau coast when the ammmi
Ion ship and the Belgian relief YES
,el rammed each other IN Halifax har
bar causing the explosion that wreck
cd the city. Had we been ii few hours
earlier our fate would have been that
of the shell torn ships we viewed III
the darbor, some of which looked aS
though they had Stormed Heleg0land
or the kiel Canal. We heard the
blast distinctly and the concession was
felt \ cloud of heavy smoke was
seen over the horizon, the sound of
canonading WAS heard, which made
the ship tremhle We first thought
that subs were busy or fight was
going on. We steamed up and beat il
to what we thought was going to be
some fun. Land came in view. tho
cloud of smoke now black. now witt
puffs of white was seen pouring III
behind the low lying hills, We then re.
allied the explosion had been on land
and when IA pilot was picked up a.
the ship neared the harbOr. first frag
ments OF the real facts we're at hand
Visible evidences of the wholesale de
FRICTION caused hy the exploding
aeIlS from tie wrecked ammunition
alp wa ever! where. Part of tie
~ WAS already in ruins while the
aI.eS were s;ili spreading. ;hut night
.aH tel, a caic blew and with the
res ashore lighting rp the gkestly
ree.,el ships N the Ea.har. we gazed
n.4p a strs1e tha. NyxS Tragic btt ",