""blind Submarine" Returns Home. 3 and 4 April 1943, Portsmouth, the British Submarine Ursula Which Sailed "blind" For Six Days and Nights With Her Periscope Smashed After Being Rammed by An Enemy Destroyer, Is Now Back Home." Chief petty Officer V J Hutchins of Plymouth, the URSALA coxswain, beside he Jolly Roger displayed in the conning tower.