The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 02, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
DESCRIBES TRIP OF SUBMARINE.
Paul Koenig Gives Graphic Account
of German IXeutscIUand.
Admiral Hanson, commander of
the Danish navy, in a preface in the
Danish edition of Captain Paul Koenig's
book describing the voyage of
the U-boat liner, Deutschland, says:
"This book will always maintain
a prominent place because it is the
record of a triumph of naval construction
and seamanship, both of
which seem to be the realization of
the most audacious version of Jules
Verne.
"This peaceful voyage has won deserved
recognition the world over and
and the printed record of its achievement
is bound to find grateful read
ers everywhere."
How the merchant submarine
Deutschland dived likev a plummet
and chased bow-on to the floor of the
ocean, then stood on her head whirling
dizzily while a furious storm
lashed the surface and a British de
strover scoured the sea in search of
lier prey, is narrated in graphic detail
by the U-boat's commander. Captain
Paul Koenig, in the following
article.
The adventures of the first undersea
merchantman have formed the
subject of a book written by her intrepid
commander, one of the chapters
of which is herewith reproduced.
We were early to learn the impor
tance of test submersions and to find j
out how infinitely necessary it is to
have the great, heavy boat firmly in
hand, with a keen and constant eye
on all the infinitesimal details.
I had decided that in the following
night, between the darkest hours,
between 1 and 11 o'clock, we would
travel submerged with the "E" engines.
In the dusk of a long summer day
we plunged downward; there was
only little' wind, but the sea surged
high, a sure sign that within a few
hours the wind would, grow into a
storm.
About 2 o'clock I gave orders to
rise. As the boat rose to the surface
its movements became wilder and j
wilder, which proved to me that the
storm had come and with it a still j
higher sea. Occassionallv we made
veritable leaps, but we calmly blew
out our "tanks" and got to the surface
in a quite orderly manner.
As we reached periscope depth, I j
tried to look around, but it was still'
almost impossible to see anything,'
for every second or so the lanky j
weeds would cut into thick water
mountains. Then, too, there was the
dawn which made the waves appear |
even more uncanny and bigger;
through the periscope as they rolled,'
on with their crushing force.
Then we came completely up to the
surface and I mounted the conning
tower to get a correct view of the:
wildly dancing sea.
Fine weather this was!
All around us, in the misty dawn,
was a witch's cauldron of wavebergs,!
with foaming crowns, toys of thej
wind, which blew off their waterdust i
and sent it sizzling through the air.
The boat worked hard; it was a
tough tussle. Frequently, nutshell j
that she was, she had to give way
before the all-powerful element. The
whole deck was flooded, of course.
Every minute the sea dashed against
the tower and, its force broken,
prickled past me in a dense sprayrain.
I clung to the rim of the
"bathtub" and searched the horizon
?a curious horizon it was, a mass of
water mountains moving stepwise in
and out one another.
I was just about to give orders to
put on the oil engines?alas! What
was that?
Ponnerwetter, a Destroyer.
/aires are singing in all keys.
I stand with tightly squeezed lips,
gaze through the conning tower and
ook out over the raging sea all about
us, feverishly looking for the first
sign of going deeper.
But I still see our deck: again and
again a wave rakes us upwards.
We have not another moment to
lose.
'"Dive deeper." is my next command,
and "Both engines extreme
power ahead!"
The whole boat trembles and
shakes under the increased engine
pressure and makes a couple of real
jumps; it literally staggers in the
wild sea?will it not go down soon?
With a sudden jerk the Deutschland
darts down below the wave-tide, and
now, bending her bow lower and lower,
she rapidly descends into the
depths.
We Have Arrived.
We have not yet realized our new
situation. There is a crash; we are
hurled to the floor, and everything
that is not compact or nailed down is
thrown into a wild pele-mele.
Recovering from the shock, we
find ourselves in the most extraordinary
positions; we look at one another,
and for a moment there is sullen
silence. Then the first officer,
Krapohl, says quite dryly; "Well, so
we have arrived."
That broke up the abominable
tension.
We all had become quite pale.
And tried to find ourselves.
What had happened?
Why this unnatural bending of the
boat? And why", did the engines
above us rage so terrifically that the
whole vessel roared?
But before any of us could really
regain his perspective, our little
Klees. the chief engineer, had darted
up from his crouching position
and with the quickness or ngntnmg
had jerked the engine telegraph
around to "halt."
Suddenly there was a deep silence.
Slowly we gathered our limbs and
our minds together and began to ponder
what had happened.
Stood on Head.
The boat had bent forward in an
angle of thirty-six degrees and stood
on its head, as it were; its bow was
on the sea's bottom and its aft was
violently swinging back and forth.
The manometer showed a depth of
about fifteen meters.
I quickly realized our situation; it
was nothing less than comfortable.
According to the map, the depth
here was thirty-one meters; with the
steep position of the long boat the
stern was bound to rise a considerable
distance out of the water, and
thus could offer a lovely target for
hostile destroyers. As long as the
engines worked there was this added
danger. When a "volley of waves"
passed over us, the screws presumably
whipped partly into the air and
increased our attractiveness by wild
spouts and foam whirls.
This Chief Engineer Klees had immediately
realized, owing to the raging
jerks of the motors, and with his
Dresence of mind he had averted the
That dark stripe over there, wasn't
that a smoke flag?
But it's already gone, hidden behind
the back of a rising wave, rising
into the dawn-gray sky.
I wraited and stared through the
glass till my eyes ached.
There it was again; it was a dark
smoke-flag?and there, look! a mast
top, thin as a needle, but I have it in
my glass, and nov, now I bore my
eyes into the glass. What is it that
comes out of the veil of waves, that
dark thing over there?the smoke
above it, four low funnels.
Donnerwetter, it's a destroyer!
* With one leap I am back in the
turret, have closed the tower hatch.
"Alarm!"?"submerge q,uickly"?
"fluten"?"depth rudder!"?"go to
twenty meters."
The commands followed one another
as in a breath. But their exe
cution!
With this sea to submerge headlong
is, according to all experiences,
sheer insanity.
But what will I do?
The destroyer might have seen us
already.
Down we must, and in as big a
hurry as possible.
Below me. in the "zentrale," the
men are working in feverish, noiseless
haste. The rapid-airing vents
are opened; the compressed air hisses
from the tanks; the submerging
greatest danger at least.
Nevertheless, we had designated
our position by a peculiar buoy, and
we expected momentarily to hear the
crashing blow of a shell in the stern,
which was still hovering overhead.
But everywhere remained quiet.
The screw could no longer betray us;
also, it probably was still too dark
up there and the destroyer perhaps
had enough of its own troubles in
the wild sea.
It will be easily understood that
we, nevertheless, tried to extricate
ourselves from this "bloedsinnig"
position. As the boat had remained
entirely intact and had stood the terrific
blow without any damage, all
further operations proceeded strictly
according to programme. The aft
tanks, which had not been entirely
emptied of air, were flooded and thus
we gradually got the boat back into
a more reasonable position.
But this does not mean th^t the
Duetschland promptly returned to
her horizontal bearings; indeed, she
had poked her nose too deep into the
dirt to make this possible in a hurry.
But now we were at least fully submerged
and had a chance to go calmly
to work.
Stable.
The furthermost ballast tanks
were relieved of part of their water,
and subsequently we maneuvered
around with the "trim-tanks" until
the prow got loose from the ground.
Thereupon we began to "swim up,"
but were promptly compelled to "trim
back" in order to counteract the immediate
tendency toward swinging on
the part of the vessel's aft, which
had become too heavy. After a while
the equilibrium of weight had been
re-established and the Deutschland
was once more firmly in my hands.
Xow there was time to consider
what it was that could case the sudden
"bucking" of our usually so well
behaved boat. There must have been
a combination of all sorts of causes.
Aside from the fact that only in the
most extraordinary and rare cases it
is possible for a big boat to sub(Continued
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