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...construction. He urged that two more battleships be laid down this year-in addition to the two now abuilding at a cost of $70,000,000 each. He also recommended that work be started immediately on two more light cruisers. And to keep abreast of the mile-a-minute torpedo motor boats developed abroad, notably in Italy, he asked for a special $15,000,000 appropriation for experimental construction of "small vessels...
...heavy-handed humor, Take Her Down nevertheless gives an entertaining picture of submarine life. While the L-9 was being towed with seven other U. S. submarines to the Azores, en route to the War zone, during a hurricane her towline parted; a fire extinguisher tore loose, sprayed the torpedo room with a white sticky froth; both magnetic and gyroscopic compasses were smashed, most of the crew were laid out. The captain decided to turn back. For six days the L-9 was lost. The weather grew colder and the days darker, until the sun broke through, revealed that...
...least 25 ships of British registry have been attacked in the Mediterranean, numerous Russian ships have been sunk, French merchantmen have been fired on. Last week the British destroyer Havock was also on Mediterranean patrol, off Alicante. Shooting past her went the long white wake of a submarine torpedo. Out crackled a message for help and whooshing overboard went a cylindrical depth charge, then another and another till seven had geysered salt water up into the air. The destroyer Hasty zipped at 38 knots to the rescue of her sister ship, but by the time she got there the surface...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...zigzagging. A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish." Tales about previous submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted...