Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-01-31
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A thrilling story of tha last voyage
of the British submarine ETA in search
of the Goeben in the Dardanelles is
told in the official account Of the loss
of the submarine.
The Ella left Murdras on January q
1918, and entered the Dard&nelles. She
safely cleared the anti-subnarine nets
and then found that the enemy had
moved the Goeben six hours earlier.
Turning back, the submarine fired a
torpedo at the ship which carried the
Goeben's ammunition, a1I the explo
sion which followed put out al the E.
1fs lights and sprang the fore hatch.
A heavy fire was directed at her from
thee forts. Everyone on board kept
his head; she was taken down to 100
feet.
The submarine became unsteady.
and got out of control diving by the
nose. AS she could no longer be re
lied upon under water, ard only three
bottles of air We're left, she was
brought TO the surface.
A heavy fire was Immediately OPEN
| ed from both siles. One shell hit her
hull just over the wardroon. A sur
| vivnr. describing what +oluWed says:
THE captain was the iivst one up on
! deck then the navigator. l followed
TO connect up the upper steering gear
| out we found the spindle to he shot
N half. We ran the gauntlet for hall
IN hour, only a few shots lifting us
The captain. seeing it was
hopeless. ran towards the shore. His
last words We're We ara il the hands
OF Cod! and only a few seconds later
I looked for him, and saw mis- body
mangled by shell fire, roll into the wa
ger and go under"
BY this time the submarine was
close to the Shore Soon afterwards
she sank, some survivor being pickel
UP by the Turks.
The experiences of those men while
in Turkish hands were unpleasant il
the extreme. The clothes given then
in exchange for their own were yer
minous and filthy, as also was thei
prison, which was flooded with filth,
water. They suffered from dysenter
and typhoid, and found the hospita
almost as dirty as their prison.
If all the Arctic plans for next yea
are realized there will fc a notabl
congress of explorers in the neighbor
| hood Of the Pole. Amlmdsen, VIII
planted the Norwegian flag at tn
South Pole is now on board his neN
shin Maud drifting in the immemoria
, icefloe which bore thu Fran an
Nansen within $50 miles Of the Fol,
Peary, the only white man who ha
reached the goal, will be at POI
Columbia with his old lieutenant. Cap
tain Bartlett prepared to fly acros
, the 1900 miles which separate il frol
? Siberia.
= And StefanGson, who has spent mos
of the last ten years within the circl
and has recently returned from an eX
petition which began il tie summe
of 1913, proposes to attack the Pc
I by submarine,
A cargo steamer came up til
Thames one cay this week. She look
ed like a monster Noah's Ark. Twely
months ago, by order of Dora, she We
1 ''dazzled." Her graceful hull ws
broken up with wavy lines and his
] gledy -piggled% stripes, apparently
g a loss which way to 60 But the can
/. outage paint was peelir5 off, and
a it will not be renewed!
- The little ship seemed 10 heave
sigh of relief as she snuEGled up
her moorings. She was proud of b
graceful sheer, of her aymmetric
e lines. She was glad the disguisir
I and disfguring paint was peeling o
k She was a real ship, AMI she wante
everyone to know it.
For nearly twelve month she sal
{ she had beer playing-liiEe children
S a nursery. One day, just becau