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More than 1,000 square miles of the soa bod is probed by every dovice known to the Havy

Parfland Dill

AREA OF PROBABILITY -16 Miles Wide

|H.M.S. RECLAIM

HURD DEEP

(EXPLOSIVES DUMP)

THE FULL, DRAMATIC STORY OF THE

SEARCH FOR THE

Cap de la Hague

LOST SUBMARINE

Somewhere down there

is the AFFRAYS

S

IXTY-ONE days ago the submarine Affray sailed from Ports-

mouth on a practice the

by

PETER

Affray

course the war patrol. At 9.15 in the should have steered. evening she dived off the Isle of Wight.

DACRE.

vessel, and the diving ship Is claim started to sweep an oblong box 90 miles long and 14 wide,

For every minute under water they are paid extra, ranging from a penny to sixpence, ne-

cording to the depth dived. The Affray men are getting four- pence.

In those early days the searchers rode

With the Reclaim's Labost on the

This "Area of Probability" equipment a diver can come up Fifteen hours later she waves of hope. The 3,300 was split into 28 boxes was officially reported miss ton Liverpool steamer An each searched thoroughly. It stay in the ship's decompression and in five minutes, but he has to ing. The world was told that dalusian spotted a patch of was as looking for something chamber for 29 minutes.

submarine was 200 feet long and 25 feet wide a submarine and 75 men oil and a

hurriedly sent to investi- somewhere in a 14-mile corridor vanished without a

gate.

Southampton and

had clue.

A Coastal Command air- Ever since that moment craft dropped a marker- ships and planes have buoy, and another plane searched unceasingly for mistook it for one of the her. So far they report: Affray's. "No success."

How has this greatest of all sea searches been made? Why can't the Affray be found?

It all started at noon on April 17 when "Fesams"-

The greatest heart-break was the incident which led the

Ad-

miralty to report that Affray Had been found stuck on the bottom is 35 fathoms of water about 30 miles off the Needles.

90-MILE 'box'

between Exeter.

DIVER trapped.

OD.

POR weeks this kind of search- Occasionally the hunters were ing went

About 120 visited by Captain Howard wrecks were located, but the Johnston, in command of all the divers..made only 22 descents. underwater operations. For him Even when it was decided to It was a sad duty-his son was dive on an object bad weather aboard the Affray.

often delayed things for days. Each dive brought only disappointment..

Now the hunt has been ex- tended into a five-mile lane along the south side of the oblong.

This is how the searchers has puzzled the Navy an work. Four ships about a mils

more

Once the divers found a bom- ber's fuselage; another time two D-Day landing barges. An ob- Ject viewed with high hopes to be a barnacle- proved

the Navy's name for Flag much as the pubtle. Two rat- apart sall up each box, their encrusted wreck...

Office Submarines - tele- phoned the cryptic message ings in the submarine Sea Devil Asdic apparatus raking the bot- "Subsmash Two" to the

thought they read the letter S tom with electronic. Impulses repeated four times on the which, when they hit an object, operations room in Ad-

supersonic telegraph, a system bounce back, making a high- miralty House at Ports- of under-water communication, pitched "ping." mouth..

Other ships beard what they be- lieved to be tapping..

It was the signal for pre- arranged submarine rescue operations to swing into action. *

A large merchant ship which it was thought the Affray might be alongside was alone in its -weed-entangled gravo.

ALONE in the depths at 200 feet, the divse edges his way over the sea bede. Strange flah peer through his visors hidden wrecks obstruct his path. He can stay thero 30 minutes-then he ascends again' to the Uvler world of men.

While investigating this ship By measuring the length of But when the area was search-time the ecur takes to retum, Petty Officer Robert "Nobby" ed nothing was found,

the object's position can be fix-. Hall became trapped upside In the Reclaim, man

"The fallire to find the Most naval men now believe ed. Once directly overhead other down that the noises were caused by echo-sounding equipment still in tugged at his ropes. Suddenly Affray does not disprove the numerous ́Astic sels being

more signals, effectiveness of Adle to detect tuned-in. But that explanation the experimental stage and on there were no

underwater objects,” does not satisfy everybody, in the secret it is used to trace Then the telephone cable at- tached to the diver's helmet cluding top-ranking subumrine an outline of the object.

came out of the water. officers,

It meant that water

. ↑

could

Down at Portsmouth a diver the put it another way. From the decks of HMS. Reclaim he gaz. ed out to sca and said: "Some- where down there is the Affray, And we mean to find her,"

But where is the Affray? Did she go off her course for some reason and is now lying on the bottom of Hurd Deep, an

FIFTY ships

AN armada of 50 ships Were they signals from the It resembles a sulamarin

from four nations, Affray?

one of the Reclaim's 17 divers. Coastal Command planes When there was no longer tho Navy's\best, is nent, down. seep into Hall's diving-dress. underwater volldy which drops

aircraft and naval

from any

Three ships form a triangle and Just as another diver was about to a depth of over 500 feat and "reasonable hope"

drop "shots," a 4-inch thick to be lowered, Hall surfaced. is used as an mimunition Lee-on-Solent they alone search entered a new phase,

dump? flew 258 sorties in 635

"The other day he said: "I' sud-. Three destroyers, four mine rope with a hundredweight lead hours-swept an area along sweepers, a radar ship, salvage sinker at one end and a marker

denly found myself upside down. A large part of Hurd Deep buoy at the other..

looking up through the hold of comes into the extended area of the ship. Then I realised that search and is now being probed I couldn't move my head.

by Asdic. If anything is found pressurised diving equipment EN the Rechim enters the "My chume on the ship saved would be used, say the "Ad- triangle and drops another my life. They sent down so márnity. "shot" which guides the diver to much air that it kept the water the bottom. It takes him three out of my mút and I'managed to to five minutes to sink 200 feet blow myself to the surface." and at that depth to ena stop up to 30 minutes:

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SILT and mud

But in the Affray search strong des have feited' the soa-bed stay to an average of 10-12 minutes. It is a hazardous Job, for there is always the risks,

“GUINEA-pig'

Experts are now adding it more could not be done to pre- vent such disasters. They de- plare that if the Channel is no wrocie-littered, that finding. lost vessel, becomes highly dim- cult, submarines should not

THEN it was decided to make practise there. “ ‚ à guinea-pig Lost. "Some 27 pemerata miles of Portland Bil the Bidol

Ehould the chief submarine of getting entangled in a wreck. rs-enboted, the Affray's last dive bass be moved to: safer waterm Main conditions exactly like those-being considered at the Admy' al- There are whispers, that this is

Sit and und are so thick that in the area where she was lost ly ovor if lights were lowered they could hardly, plares the gloom, Startica na peer, through the diver aluss visor, and have to be waved away repeatedlyan exhausting jobs in farcit,ut

For dve hours she sat on the hauries one fact' emergbe until But from all the inquests and

bottom while Andies groped for the Afror, 11. kound nobody. In frer. To the crow of 4 it was, the Novy had a promoured a routine affair-dome of them theory, about the disaster. polished the bram while waiting!

The diver's only equipment lost it was a vital experiment. How long will the search go

a knife to hack himself free of

trouble. He ims to investigato

than wrocit solely by feal. But the

on? “It is in our interests to And

I was subcount. The Bidon) the Affray," says the Admiralty,

Auray divers claim they can do was found and He outline skole "Cute, constructors, went to look moosaling, which a je possible on dindinis Adiniralty la: now at: Tế Thế là no infection, to

Urèquilah the sont dì,

drkconvinced that:-

--{London Express Service.). EDITOR'S NOTE: Bince this articio was written, the Af-

been Jocated ́ ́in fray has about 200 feet of water about 30 miles southwest of the Inle

of Wight.