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...most striking evidence of that was almost overlooked in last week's excitement over the Kearny. The Navy's Chief of Operations, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, told the Senate Naval Affairs Committee in a letter the facts about the brush of the old four-piper U.S.S. Greer with a submarine last month (TIME, Sept...
...Betty" Stark's statement revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...Greer picked up the U-boat on her detecting apparatus, followed it, keeping astern. The British plane dropped four depth charges and pulled out for home, probably short of gas. For more than three hours the Greer hung on, broadcast the sub's position-probably cursing the failure of British destroyers to turn up-but making no attack, for at that time the shoot-on-sight order had not been issued. The Greer was following her instructions of spotting and making known the presence of a sea raider in the Western Hemi sphere...
Finally the submarine showed fight. She changed course, closed with the Greer. With every man on the Greer at battle station, the lookouts sighted an impulse bubble close aboard-the big globule of air which rises when a submarine fires a torpedo. The submarine had fired without raising her periscope, aiming by her sound equipment...
...close miss. Within a minute the Greer sighted the bubbling wake of the torpedo about 100 yards astern. By that time the little 1,090-ton destroyer had begun to wheel, was steaming swiftly toward the spot where she had seen the impulse bubble. Over the spot the men on her fantail dumped eight depth charges. They sent up green geysers in the chill air. But the Greer could still hear the sub under...