1961-06-03 — Page 10

SLOWLY, painfully,

Lieut.-Commander

Rupert

Lonsdale dragged himself up the conning-tower ladder in the submarine Seal. She had just struggled to the surface after being trapped in the mud of the Kattegat for nearly 21 hours. And the air in her was so depleted of oxygen that to take a couple of steps produced the panting exhaustion that might normally result from a 100-yard sprint.

While Seal had lain on the sea bed with her stern filled with water, those who had done most had suffered must.

ge

And Lonsdale, above all others had relentlessly dragonti- ed his failing strength to with disaster and disappoint- ment. Outwardly, at least, this quiet max bad been impervious to the stresses that had eripled most of his crew.

WAITING...

Now, in this fast hour before dawn, he faced a new crisis, a nese challenge ta the unknown

What awaited Seal in

world with which she hand poet palufully regained contar?"

Were the German abipa rend planes still searching for Seal" Were they already racing in for

* KIN?

Dozens of eyes followed him as he began the painful, drag

11.

removed

the clips fran the lower coming-tower hatch, pened it and continued the slow struggle up the tower.

that had built

The pressure

Bombed, gunned-and

unable to hit back...

AMES BENSON

even

rid herself of her heavy drop Beel. Now come this new calamily: she was incapable of being steered.

There remained the possibility of achieving some sort of dirce- tional control by varying the use. of the port and starboard engines.

But this method of steering proved quite Inadequate to swing her round. So a sugges- tim by C.P.O. Higgins-it was a haff-joke that they call stern first was tried. For a time. It

the Swedish

Bat

Then he began calling White- fixing the direction of echoes, worked. Seal began to make hall with a code-group which was the one vital piece of progress towards indicated that he had a mes- equipment which, at that time, coast. Hopes began to rise... sage of the highest priority. the

the Navy possessed and Germans did not. It was the most closely - guarded Navy's secret. For it to fall into German hands would have been

a disaster far greater than the loss of any one submarine.

Now this precious pear was being laid out on the control- room deck and mutilated with hammers.

His coll was heard and ac- knowledged by a shore station. A few seconds inter it was

which, on the captain's orders. Futer then began to tap out any Impression, and he shouted

open. Seal was once again part he was to throw into the sen.

his cypher groups, down for the compressors to be

Each bag was weighted with started to speed up the process. of the outside, living world. Her

crew could smell the first wave spanners and pleces of heavy MOST IMMEDIATE CON- The waiting, watching men

FIDENTIAL. SEAL TO were wondering whether Seal of fresh air coming through the piping from the engine-room.

The three trips up and down VICE-ADMIRAL SUB- would be cut in half any conning-tower. But before they minute br

to proclaim their the conning-tower ladder seemed Bone German had time

MARINES. to take him an ago. By the vessel that might have been rejoicing the vast majority were

stricken by

and new waiting for her.

time the third bag was over the SUBMARINE FILLED WITH headaches than the side he

The scraps felt completely ex- WATER FROM STERN⋅ TO Others Imagined they could severer

129 BULKHEAD, CAUSED hear a surface vessel's sea-boat carbon dioxide poisoning had hausted.

He remained leaning against BY MINE being lowered from its davits. caused.

DEPTH And. good though the fresh the bridge rail for a few mo But nothing happened. After

ale smelt and tasted, it showed ments trying five to ten minutes spent redue-

It was only then FD7 LAID IN POSITION.

to regain some CHARGE. no aigus at first of ending the energy, and He began by opening a valve Ing the pressure Lonsdale to

the pressure, but this declared himself ready to open weariness and sluggishness that that he realised what an idiot SECRET BOOKS DESTROY-

made action so difficult. seemed to be trit slow in making the hatch.

ED. AM MAKING FOR SWEDISH COAST. WILL TRY FOR GOTHENBURG.

m in the beat during her efforts te free herself was tremendous, had had heapened the upper ight away he would catapulted right out

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ha had been.

He had seen all the bare heavily weighted in the con- trol-room and then carried them laboriously up the long stor ladder instead of carry- ing the bags themselves quite heavy and weights separately. His

Just one of many .was

of a normally keen

function

examples

Signalman Waddington and the lookouts began to follow their captain up to the bridge. They hod to push their way through groups of men standing beneath the conning-lower hatch. These were now beginning to revive brala refusing slightly, and were embracing properly as o result of the ore another like members of a atrocious football team after a goal has existed in Scal. been scored.

As the lookouts reached the bridge they could see that il

was

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cundifitas that had

THE SIGNAL

already starting to Ret Night. Lonsdale seemed the CHIEF PETTY OFFICER same rock:like figure he had TELEGRAPHIST FUTER climb- been for the endless hours they ed down from the control- had spen! on the

bed. room the W/T offles to send Quickly he showed them what a signal from the caplain to the could be seen: the dim lights Admiralty, The men who watch- of a coastline that could ed him to know that what he possibly mean safely and per- was about to da would be haps evon lead to home.

likely to ductase their position The next man up on the to the enemy if it was not bridge was Sub-Lieutenant Hen- already known. derson with the first of the three For a few moments, bags

of confidential bocks, listened to the outside

Cummings

OR

As he finished the Inst group he lacked up at the clock and 0210 added is the ur origin, BST. His message was acknow- but he continued to ledged

and king the shore listen

heard Whitshall station to re- peat a couple of the groups.

These 11 heard correctly repeated and he was then able to send word up to Lonsdale on the bridge that Seal'a final message would be with Admiral Submarines in matter

P

of minutes. He switched off his machinery and formally coused W/T watch.

HAVOC

When Futer re-entered the control-room he saw what ap- peared to be a scene of chaos.

The whole of the Asdle gear was being dismantled.

The Asdic detection device, Jocaten other ships by

Futer world. which

THE

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MAC

were then being Put in buckets and passed up the conning-tower to the bridge, where they were emptied over the sido.

went channels in and out of the In addition, chorts showing the minefelds in home waters were being born up inte minute pieces before being ditched.

While (lis

now the lubricating nystem was giving trouble. The oil puraps could not maintain the needed pressure. The star- board engine was getting no

oil at all. It seized up com- pletely.

Scal's predicament was a sad ene. She was lying wallowing on the ocean, with little effective and with means of propulsion no way of sieering either ahead could or astern now that she turn only one propeller.

She was moving round in long, siow circles, unable to dive and completely at the, mercy of any enemy that might appear.

There was no possibility at all of any kind of a British ship coming to her help in thaso waters.

that Optimism going on, WAS

had been Lonsdale allowed the crew up slowly rising was now dashed. to the bridge two ur three There was no hope that could were many reasonably remain. There was at a time. There cases of delayed alckness. But nothing.

Lonsdale looked at his wrist- watch. It was almost 9230, The sky had become distinctly bright. It was then the star- board lookout cailed out: "AR- craft in sight, starboard side."

УСТО

the minutes of darkness running out. It Seal were to be benched in neutral waters, must be done quickly.

HELPLESS

it

The sound of an aircraft

the enpine and

ear

and

1

outline of

aeaplane

eye simul

The respite was over.

Lonsdale called down to the light reconnaissance control-room the helm orders to truck bring Scal's head round through taneously. 180 degrees, for she was pointing directly away from the Swedish coast. But nothing happened. It then became clear that the sicering mechanism was useless. Presumably the rudder had been damaged by the mine which had blown a hole in the stern.

Sepi was already suffering from one crippling handicap. She was unable to dive because, during her efforts to free her- self from the sea bed, she had

LIEUTENANT MEHRENS, the observer (and captain) of one of two German Arado 50D- planes which were on routine patrol of the Kattegat, zaw an obscure, dork shape on the surface of the sea.

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