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Shipping Meets a Threat
not the easiest things to locate, when you consider how small they are and how big the seas 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 rendezv- ous to refuel; be in sight of some ship at some time, so that warnings and alarms can be aprend.
The U-Boat
by Captain FRANK H. SHAW
How is it done? How does the U-Boat commander spot his How What does he see by means of the pariscope? proy ? can he tall whether a destroyer lurks behind the tramp ? What happens to Hitler's floating oil dopota? Captain Frank H. Shaw, the well-known naval writer, who has himself helped to hunt U-Boats, tells the full story here.
must make off on the surface-and' its speed is not sufficient to allow it to clude the chasers the are [ris- tuntly hot on its trail.
WHEN
mains totally submerged, even with number have been wounded-anda and a gun. These little ships his periscope below the surface, and submarine's wound is often morial. Jeg low. As I said: another chance will offer.
Not so with the underwater lurker. he's secret as well as sinister. The biggest argument in his favour is that
WITH bia own engines stopped, anything visible on the surface is a potential enemy-to be treated ac even his dynamos closed down. cordingly. And as he can submerge
AKING it by and large, we are
not doing so badly.
[/HEN the US. joined forces with: us in the last war they devised" what they called the Splinter Fleet a large number of speedy email craft, each carrying a dozen depth charges:
kunted in packs; and when their hydrophones: detected the presence of a submarine they ran a ring round It, sprinkling depth charges, as their commanding officer put 14, “like confetti at a wedding." Their success was con- siderable.
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-in 25 seconds, it doesn't give the there is little for a hunter searching war stations, Depot ships for refuell- ihese waspish ships are copable of
U-boats were dispatched to their powerful than the Splinter Fleet; and
Long before September 3, Hitler's
We have small craft, faster, marè
earnest, reckers too much of a chance for U-boats to work upon. But the ing and restoring them were posted putting down such a barrege as will marines, mines, and raiders is even though his whirring engines experience gained in the last war at strategic point.
Onish any U-boat, if within its radius
sharpened?
One of the Arst steps taken by of action. below the surface are canlly audible coupled with twenty years of peace- to trained watchers in the hunting time experimenting, has taught our
naval craftsmen n deuce of a lot! the Royal Navy has been to root out Many cases are cited in the last During the Great War, German ships.
these depot ships-old tankers bought How much we have Icarnt is Germany's undersen navy is no
boat at its own game by dodging and action accounted for the loss of
negligible factor. U-boats can choose evident from the statement by the Wholesale by Hitler in anticipation of war of merchantmen defeating a U- The 6,600 vessels, totalling some 12,-eir own time for attack; and if a Prime Minister as to the possible this situation. Since the depot ships the wise use of engines; and the Red and surface command of the seas, their Nazi may forget that he is not attack. 800,000 tons, or about 26 per cent | Poked-up periscope shows that there number of enemy craft attacked and are surfaco craft, and since we retain Ensign crowd learn quickly.
destroyed. This is obviously are risks in making offensive action, of the tonnage on hand prior to the submarine can lie doggo until a understatement. One reason for this such destruction is not advertised ing sheep any more-merchantmen is that the Admiralty require more oh, no! Perhaps when they are put it no armed vessel is available, to have been taught how to elude him, hostilities. The convoy system more favourable opportunity occurs.
After all, there are sure to be plenty evidence than the mere record of a down, one of our ormed vessels may
smear of oil on the surface following take post in place of its victims splicher him completely. of opportunitice, the Nazl argues,
s submarine, before that the U-boat, denuded of fuel and with these English using the high an attack on
admitting à successful action. seas as if they were their own!
supplies, blunders into a trap.
man
destruction inevitable in time. But
armada of anti-
marine activity and grenter sink. whether the target la Atled with 18 years had to bring incontrovertible Such a bomb. of 300lb.. weight of was nothing wrong with the recent a submarine is 0 depth-charge, weapon against submarines. There
to
gun.
which cut British losses in the former conflict to about 6 per cent of the ships convoyed, enn" be count
in the last war the commonest ruse--Or, perhaps-the-Nazi, being sus" "THERE'S O ed on to-day to reduce losses sharp-
adopted by the enemy was, on being plelous, nay try to carry on without submarine craft very much at ly, unless new weapons appear."
THE periscope reflects a perfossil fur nose storey, and die of starvation.
clear picture of a surface vessel oil from a vent, to give the impression The losses of U-boats are not always war with Fritz. In the laat war we The shipyards of the world are
one reason being that it is used Q-boats to decoy the U-boat to on the screen-table in the navigating of a mortal injury, thus causing the listed, launching an estimated 200,000 room. Silhouettes thus seen have attacking sicop, destroyer or trawler, impossible to keep track of undersea is doom--but once their secret was to break off the fight on the assump- craft which meet with this dismal stead we have the planes of the disclosed their utility vanished, In- tons of vessels a month, an amount certain characteristics: a merchant-
pretty well unmistakable, tion that only a cracked submarine fate of simply vanishing.
RAF. and the Fleet Air Arm. These almost equal to sinkinga.
It is disclosing no secret to any are a weapon not much used in '14- espcelnily as the periscope prisms could leak oil. Even assuring intensified sub-magnify considerably, and even show We submarine-hunters of the 1914- that the most effective weapon against 18. The aeroplane to-day is a fine proof of a submarine's destruction ings by mines which might jump And the U-boat fitted with direc- before, earning any credit. If there TNT exploding under water, dis rescue of a torpedoed crew by two destruction by 50 per cent, new tional hydrophones (a kind of sub were no human survivors, a cap turbs anything within a considerable seaplanes and if that 808 bad been construction is being accelerated merged telephone on the hull of a ribbon, a fragment of unmistakable radius.
delivered a littlo earlier the Nazl If it doesn't crack the Nazi's hide must inevitably have perished. meet the threat. The British ship) con tell from the beat of the debris, or a reliable photograph bad
propeller, transmitted through the to be produced. So that, if there is it jolts him into sight, when guns can Weighing up the facts, i would for Government is giving assistance to water and magnifled in the hydro- actual proof that a number of U-boats puncture him so satisfactorily that rather be the captain of an unarmed shipping concerns In
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
man's engines--the number of rovo- begun last apring. France has a lutions differs a lot, as between Red million tons more of ships than in Ensign and White, 1914 and is hastening launchings,
Neutrals have doubled, and United States quadrupled, the 1914 tonnage.
Is Unless building checked by effective air attacks or other means the shipping industry, It would appear, can be counted on to more than counterbalance. Binkings with new launchings. It did so in 1914-18 and it la vastly more efficient now.
an
precedented speed-up programma equipped with bona fide merchant- assumption is that more than that punctured U-boat cannot dive; it day.
L
A Cheering Estimate
The quieter the Front
the
A warship, too, has finer Unes than a freighter. If the U-boat com- mander gets a bow-on view of an oppranching ship, he can tell at a glance whether she is the ordinary bull-nosed tramp or something turned out from a Navy yard-speedy, arm- ed and equipped with wonderful de- vices for his detection and destruc- tion.
Doctor
а
who
of
silhouette is framed in the screen.him, has no desire to career about the Definite prey!
the
Old
School
Ocharacter.". He is
UR doctor is by way of being a arrived at the hillside coltage and bedreading his visits, look forward to Their large, gan to make his examination, the old įhis arrival with great delight. {untidy-looking man,
seldom miser interrupted him with?"Noo.nches and pains are forgotteri once (needs to carry the traditional black see here, doctor, sfore yo gang ony the old man is by their. · bedside, bag because of the capacious pockets faurer, let me tell ye this. Gin yo spinning long, impossible yarns for which he favours in his old top-cost. think he's no worth repsirin', dinna their benefit, and promising them a
arc that to deal satisfactorily with These the U-boat menace is anything medicine
always bulging" with pit oot muddle expense on him.”. ride on Methuselah soon as they bottles, boxes of pills, On another occasion he was called are well enough to get up. This is a but an cosy job. The Nazl desires strange Instruments, and a supply of to a cottage which resembled a never-failing tonic, for they love to retion. He hears distant enginebeats "black bools," which the doctor sucks "midden" in its untidiness, to ex-trundle up the village street with the transmitted through his hydrophones, with great enjoyment as he goes on amine a small boy who was alling, doctor holding them firmly on his He counts them. A merchantman 1 (his rounds.
{"I hope there's not muckle wrang wibleycle. Up goes his periscope.
In winter the doctor's task is often: A freighter's
"The doctor," as everybody calls oor Tom," said the slatternly mother,
anxiously.
a very hard one. He has to tramp moro active the political speculator. The air la alive with rumours of
"No, nothing much," said the doc. many miles up snow-clad braes to But the ponderous beat of the countryside in a raptor car, which, in
or any case, would help him little, since tor gravely "I think some soap and reach his outlying patients and to minister to their needs, real er startling things that are about to tramp's propeller might desden happen, and
imaginary. cspecially in the jam the thinner beat of an escort's many of his pallente live in outlying water would do him as much good as
the screw therefore periscope cottages whose only approach is by a anything."
"Oh, doctor, what's the matter 'wl' Internal affairs of Germany, but it is sweeps the visible horizon in search hillside path. Instead he sticks to "Mexly me." sald she in a relieved not incumbent upon anyone to give of any suspicious smoke.
If he seese old bleycle, which has been right- voice: "that's cheap medicine. Wull me tongue?" asked an anxious wife thoso stories full credence.
this he understands that lo attack named Methusela by the villagers, I gi'e it to him afore or efter meals, who was in the habit of "clashing
with her neighbours.
"Nothing much," he replied, acoth- It is refreshing to turn to what might be perilous. He therefore re-and which can be heard long before doctor?"
it is in sight.
ingly. "It's just needing a rest.” да experienced and cool-headed |
We are used to a vision of the doc Japanese Admiral has to say about have happened. The situation was pocket and a "black bool" bulging in all, beside the inevitable geranium
tor, a stethoscope protruding from hir
On almost every cottage window-
* * the European situation-especially changed at a stroke by the German- his check, speeding down the village plant, reposes a bottle of the doctor's spends his free hours studying plants when his estimate hangs heavily on Soviet agreemont Britain's naval street, with terrified hens fluttering medicina.. The contents are harmless of all descriptions. This hobby of the alde of the Allies.
problem was instantly reduced to out of the way of Methuselah's enough. "It's the psychology that his amazes the villagers and is a great
counts," says the old doctor with a Admiral Nakamura reminds us of mooting Gorman guerrilla warfare ancient wheels.
Fortunately he has a sense of hum-chuckle. He knows only too well M Tosh, who suffers from the "pains" source of annoyance to old Mr. the unpleasant fact that before the in the North Sen,
jour, which stands him in good stead that the goodwives are pover 80 and who is always calling him in at war Great Britala's potential
Perhaps the Admiral speaks with when he la called out to some patient happy 08 when discussing their unlikely hours. One day when he enemies were Japan in the Pacific, the prejudice of a naval man when whose ailments are entirely Imagine "complaints"; and a bottle from the arrived rather late to visit her, she Italy in the Mediterranean, and he says that Britain can now havnery, and he has many pawky tales to doctor is thought to be a certain curelected him
tell of his experiences,
with, "I'm," sa yo'vo- for all allments. Indeed, should he condescendit to come at last. It's a Germany in the North Sea, with absolute confidence in her victory,
prescribe, anything else, his patients peoty I handna been a puddock-stool Spain able to provide basos for the and that the war will not be won Ini
are most indignant and refuse to Axis Powers. But what at first
One of his favourites, which he pronounce themselves cured until hoyo wad he's been here first thing.
the mornin." " " The doctor lives in a big houm ne- -camo as a severe shock to the British In agreement with prevalent opin-relates with great gusto, concerns a has presented them with a bottle of
be miserly old shepherd whose only son highly-coloured liquid, people turned out to be one of the jon. He thinks the war will
(became seriouly lil one night, "The The doctor is a great favourite untidy as himself, and is looked aftens
PLEASE Turn To Page 9, most fortunate things that could over within a year.
doctor was sent for, and when he among the children who, far from
the air. His final conclusion is not
The doctor Is a keen botanist, and