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Shipping Meets a Threat
Will destruction of merchant ships in the present war exceed the ability of world shipyards to make good the losses, particularly if the German thrust with sub- marloes, mines, and raidera is sharpened?
THE FUEHRER: "What's going to happen if he stops dancing ?”.
Hunting
not the locate, easiest things to when you consider how small they are and how big the sens in which they do their deadly work. With a surface ship you know what you are up against: know they must keep to certain areas, call at appointed rendezy- ous to refuel; be in sight of some that ship at some time, so,
can be warnings and alarms spread.
SUBMARINES are
ships.
The
INF
U-Boat
by Captain FRANK
H. SHAW
How is it done? How does the U-Boat commander spot his pray ?
What does he soo by means of the periscope? How can ho tell whether a destroyer lurks behind the tramp? What Captain Frank H. happens to Hitler's floating oil depots ? Shaw, the well-known naval writer, who has himself helped to hunt U-Boats, tells the full story hore.
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mains totally submerged, even with number have been wounded-and his periscope below the surface, and submarine's wound is often mortal.
Hes low. will offer.
As I said: another chance
a
must make off on the surface-and its speed is not sufficient to allow it to clude the chasers that are ins- tantly hot on its trail.
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WHEN the U.S. joined forces with
us in the lost war they devised what they called the Splinter Fleet- a large number of speedy amal? crafi, each carrying a dozen depth charges and a gun. These little ships hunted in packs; and when thele hydrophones detected the presence of a submarine they ran a ring round it, sprinkling depth charges, as their commanding officer put it, “ike confetti at a wedding." Their success was.com- siderable,
.
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Not so with the underwater lurker
TAKING it by and large, we are -he's secret as well as sinister. The
not doing so badly. biggest argument in his favour is that
engines stopped, anything vielbic on the surface is a
WITH his own
We have small craft, faster, more Long before September 3, Hitler's their potential enerny-to be treated ac- Weven his dynamos closed down, U-boats were dispatched to
powerful than the Splinter Fleet; and cordingly. And as he can submere there is little for a hunter scorching war stations. Depot ships for refuell- these waspish ships are capable of In 25 seconds, it doesn't give the earnest ceckers too much of a chance for U-boats to work upon. But the ing and restoring them were posted putting down such a barrage as will finish any U-boat, if within its radius even though his whirring engines experience gained in the last war, at strategic points.
One of the first steps taken by of action. below the surface are easily audible coupled with twenty years of peace-
Many cases are cited in the last to trained watchers in the hunting time experimenting, has taught our the Royal Navy has been to root out naval craftsmen a deuce of a lot!'
these depot ships-old tankers bought war of merchantmen defeating a U- Τζούν much we have learnt During the Great War, German
a wholesale by litter in anticipation of boat at its own game by dodging and Germany's undersea navy is no
The action accounted for the loss of
negligible factor. U-coats can choose evident from the statement by the this situation. Since the depot ships the wise use of engines; and the Red
to the possible are surface craft, and since we retain Ensign crowd learn quickly. 0,600 vesseln, totalling some 12,-
their own time for attack; and I a Prime Minister es poised-up periscope shows that unere number of enemy craft attacked and surface command of the seas, their Nazi may forget that he is not attack
is ubviously an destruction is inevitable in time. But 803,000 tons, or about 25 per cent
have been taught how to elude him, are risks in making offensive action, destroyed. This the subrnarine can lie doggo until understatement. One reason for this such destruction is not advertised-ing sheep any more-merchantmen Perhaps when they are nut if no armed vessel is avaliable to of the tonnage on hand prior to
more lavourable opportunity occurs. is that the Admiralty require more not hostilities. The convoy system after all, there are sure to be plecty evidence than the mere record of down, one of our armed vessels may spitcher him completely.. which cut British losses in the of opportunities, the Nuzi argues, smear of oil on the surface following take post in place of its victim-30
admitting a successful action.
supplies, blunders into a trap, former conflict to ubout 5 per cent with these English using the high an attack on a submarine, before that the U-boat, denuded of fuel and
seus as if they were their ownl-
Or, perhaps the Naz!,-being-sus--HERE'S a regular-armada-of-anti- In the last war the commonest rusa of the ships convoyed, can be count-
submarine craft very much at adopted by the enemy was, on being picious, may try to carry on without ed on to-day to reduce losses sharp-
THE periscope reflects a perfectly ever remote to sicer to disage fuct and stores, and die of starvation. ly, unless new weapons appear.
clour picture of a surface vessel ell from a vent, to give the impression The losses of U-boats are not always war with Fritz. In the last war we The shipyards of the world arc
on the screen-table in the navigating of a mortal injury, thus causing the listed, one reason being that it is used Q-bouts to decoy the U-boat to Scen have attacking sloop, destroyer or trawler, impossible to keep track of undersea its doom-but once their secret was stend wo have the planes of the launching an estimated 200.000 zoom. Silhouettes thus
merchant- break off the night on the assump craft which meet with this dismal disclosed their utility vanished, In- R.A.F. and the Fleet Air Arm. These tons of vessels a menth, an amount certain characteristics: a
man is pretty well unmistakable, tion that only a cracked submarine fate of simply vonishing.
It is disclosing no secret to say are a weapon not much used in '14- almost equal to sinkings.
especially as the periscope prisms could leak ott.
We submarine-hunters of the 1914- that the most effective weapon against 18. The aeroplane to-day is a fine
a submarine is
adepth-charge. weapon against submarines. Thero Even assuming intensifed sub-magnity considerably, and even show marine activity and greater sink- whether the target is fitted with a 18 years had to bring incontrovertible such a bomb, of 300lb. weight of was nothing wrong with the recent proof of a submarine's destruction
SOS had been. ings by mines. which might jump And the U-boat fitted with direc- before earning any credit. If there T.N.T.. exploding under water, dis- rescue of a torpedoed grew by two
no human survivors, a cap turbs anything within a considerable scapianes-and if that S
delivered a little earlier the Naz! destruction by 50 per cent, new tional hydrophanes (a kind of sub- were
If it doesn't crack the Nazi's hide must inevitably have perished. construction is being accelerated merged telephone on the hull of a ribbon, a fragment of unmistakable radius.
Weighing up the facts, I would far the to be produced. So that, if there is it jolts him inte eight, when guns can to meet the threat. The British ship can tell from the beat of the debris, or a reliable photograph had
propeller, transmitted through Government is giving assistance to water and magnited in the hydro- actual proof that a number of U-boats puncture him so satisfactorily that rather be the captain of an unarmed shipping
un-phones, whether the visible vessel is have been dealt with so far, the safe his escape is an impossibility for a merchantman than of a U-boat-any concerns in пл
equipped with bona de merchant- assumption is that more than that punctured U-boat cannot dive; it day. precedented speed-up programme man's engines the number of revo begun last spring. France hus a lutions differs a lot, as between Red million tons more of ships than in Ensigns and White, 1914 and is hastening launchings.
Neutrals have doubled, and United States quadrupled, the 1914 tonnage. Unices building
is
it would appear, can be counted on to more than counterbalance sinkings with new launchings. It
more efficient now.
A Cheering Estimate
the
Front
gun.
A warship, too, has finer lines than a freighter. If the U-boat com- mander gets a bow-on view of an approaching ship, he can tell at a glance whether the is the ordinary bull-nosed tramp or something turned
tion.
to
Doctor of
the Old School
to
checked by effective air attacks or out from a Navy yard-speedy, arm-UN doctor is by way of being a arrived at the hillside cottage and be- dreading his visits. look forward to He Is a large, gan to make his examination, the old his arrival with great delight. Their other means the shipping industry, ed and equipped with wonderful de-character."
vices for his detection and destruc- untidy-loading man, who seldom miser Interrupted him with:-"Noo, aches and pains are forgotten once needs to carry the traditionel black see here, doctor, afore ye gang ony the old man is by their bedside, ye spinning leng, impossible garns for lag because of the capacious pockets faurer, let me tell ye this, Gin which he favours in his old top-cont. think he's no worth repairin', dinna their benefit, and promising them a ride on Methuselah as soon as they are always bulging with pit oot muckle expense on him.'
On another occasion he was called are well enough to get up. This is, a. did so in 1914-18 and it is vastly So that to deal antisfactorily with These
the U-boat menace is anything medicine bottles, boxes of pilis,
cottage which resembled a never-failing lonie, for they love to but an easy job. The Nazi desires strange instruments, and a supply of to a action. He hrars distant enginebeats black boots," which the doctor sucks "midden" in its untidiness, to ex-trundle up the village street with the transmitted through his hydrophen's with great enjoyment as he goes on amine a small boy who was alling, doctor holding them armly on his
"I hope there's no' muckle wrang wi bicycle. He counts them. A merchantmen! his rounds,
In winter the doctor's task is often oor Tam," said the slatternly mother, "The doctor," as everybody calls
a very hard ons. He has to tramp anxiously. The quieter
the Un goes his periscope. A freighter's more active the political speculator.silhouette is framed in the screen. him, has no desire to career about the
"No, nothing much," said the doc-many miles up mow-clad broes Definite prey! The air is alive with rumours of But the ponderous beat of the countryside in a motor car, which, in
imaginary. startling things that are about to tramp's proveller might denden or any case, would help him little, since for gravely "I thinic some soap and reach his outlying patients and to "Oh, doctor, what's the matter wi happen, and especially in the jam the thinner beat of an escort's many of his patients live in outlying water would do him as much good as minister to their needs, real or
the Periscope cottages whose only approach la by a anything."
"Mexly me." said she in a relieved ma tongue?" asked an anxious wife screw therefore Internal affairs of Germany, but it is veeps the visible horizon in search hillside path. Instead to sticks to not incumbent upon anyone to give of any suspicious smoke. If he sees his old bicycle, which has been right-volce: "that's cheap medicine, Wull who was in the habit of "clashing
this he understands that to attack ly named Methuselah by the villagers, I gi'e it to him afore or efter meals, with her neighbours. those stories full credence.
* fit is in sight, It is refreshing to turn to what might be perilous. He therefore re-and which can be heard long before doctor?"
We are used to a vision of the doc- an experienced and cool-headed
for, a stethoscope protruding from his
On almost every cottage window-
The doctor is a keen botanist, and Japanese Admiral has to say about have happened. The situation was pocket and a "black boo!" bulging in sili, beside the inevitable geranium the European situation-especially changed at a stroko by the German-his cheek, speeding down the village plant, reposes a bottle of the doctor's spends his free hours studying plants. The contents are harmless of all descriptions. This hobby of when his estimate hangs heavily on Soviet agreement. Britain's naval street, with terrified hens fluttering medicine.
that his amazes the villagers and is a great of the way of Methuselah'a enough. "It's the psychology the aide of the Allies.
problem was Instantly reduced to out
counts," says the old doctor with source of annoyance to old Mrs.
well Admiral Nakamura reminds us of meeting German guerrilla warfare ancient wheels.
Fortunately he has a sense of hum-chuckle. Ila knows only too MTosh, who suffers from the "palos"
never our, wifch stands him in good stead that the goodwives are
so and who is always calling him in at the unpleasant fact that before the in the North Sca..
when discussing their
unlikely hours, One day when he potential war Great Britain's
Perhaps the Admiral speaks with when he is called out to some patient happy is enemies wore Japan in the Pacific, the prejudice of a nave! man when whose aliments are entirely imagin- "complaints"; and a battle from the arrived rather late to visit her, she for all allments. Indeed, should ha condescendit to come at last. It's a Italy in the Mediterranean, and he says that Britain can now have tell of his experiencey pawky tales to doctor is thought to be a certain cure greeted him with, ""I'm," so je've prescribe anything else, his patients peety I handna been a puddock-stool Germany. In the North Sea, with absolute confidence in her victory,
are most indignant and refuse to an ye wad he's been here. thing Spain able to provide bases for the and that the war will not be won In
The doctor Ilves in a bit
house as Axis Powers. But what at first the air. His final conclusión is not One of his favourites, which ho pronounce themselves cured until he the mornin." camo as a severo shock to the British In agreement with prevalent! opin rotates with great gusto, concerns as presented them with a bottle of
The doctor is great favourite untidy as himself, and is looked after
PLEASE Turn To Page 9,5 became seriously, ill one night." The
· people turned out to be one of the fon. He thinks the war will be miserly old shepherd whose only son highly-coloured liquid
doctor was sent for, and when ho among the children who, most fortunate things that could over within a year.
∙tar from
"Nothing much," he replied, sooth-- Ingly. "It's just needing a rest."
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