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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1938.

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Greatest Submarine

Story in

WHAT HAPPENED

INSIDE K 13

To-Day's Anniversary In History

There will be no more salvage of British sub- marines. It is announced that tombed men will henceforth cacaps by the Davis life-saving ap. paratus, and the sunken craft will be left on the aca bed.

This, then, is the time to tell the greatest story of submarine salvage in Britain's history. It happened seventeen years ago, but, because of censorship, the facts were not revealed. She was the largest vessel of her time.. She carried in her sixty of the cleverest men in the submarine ner- vice-designers, builders und Admiralty experts.

Now the full story of what happened in that submarine and the wonderful resene is told for the first time by a young relative of a man who went down with her.

N the afternoon of Mon- ON

day, January 29, 1917, the K.13 went out on the waters of the Gare Loch in

the Clyde for her final trials accompanied by a tender.

Aboard her, and distributed through her nine compartments, were eighty men under the cap taincy of Lieut. Commander Godfrey Herbert.

It was intended that she should submerge for Afteen minutes. Or ders were given the hatches were closed, and she disappeared.

Almost at once it was seen that sho was sinking too fast. Something was wrong.

Later It was discovered that by a blunder four nir volves had been left open in the engine-room.

But at that moment the men in

the fore part of the vessel could only gaze at each other as their aleel chamber went down until she grounded Afty-five feet below the surface, her bow tilted slightly up- ward.

History

DRIVER

Never accelerate suddenly or brake violently.

Take comers slowly- change down carly & go round in low gear

When driving on tramlines make angle of crossing as great as possible.

dive," and messages were sent to the shore and to the shipping centre of

Fairfield for help.

The exact position of the submar ine was difficult to sscertain, and it was not

not until two o'clock on Tues-

that it was located.

CAR

BE ON YOUR GUARD

AGAINST SKIDDING

Luggage overhang causes tail-way.

skid starts hun front wheels into direction of skid

the hatchways would open, and three barriers had to be passed be- fore the open water was reached the hatchway from the control room to the conning tower; the hatch from lower to the wheel- the conning house, and the door from the wheel-

day morboat and another submarine wase to the sea.

A gunbont arrived, and a diver was sent down.

AL eight o'clock on Tuesday morn

that he saw a boat,

Shot Through The Hatchway

stood in three feet

of water

still

Ing પી. faint glow of green light The original idea was that when showed through the periscope, and they one of the watchers below shouted they would open valves for

It was, of course, impossible, but more compressed air to rush in.

open the the men had reached that stage of hatch leading into the wheelhouse sheer exhaustion when Illusions be and allow Goodhart to be literally come realities.

shot through it.

There was no mistaking, however, the heavy beat of the diver's boots

which ensued soon afterwards.

Feverishly the men beat upon the wails of their cell, and the answer ing hummering was music in their

ears.

Herbert would then

If he survived he would make a bild rush for the door and swim free.

Dont use wONS. tyres, Have them retreaded or sticed, (New ones best.)

He was found long afterwards in the wheelhouse, against the roof of which he had been hurled, his life gallantly sacrificed.

RO

There was at the time, however, his opportunity to Invesilgate fate. Herbert refused all ald until he had explained the position be-

low.

Foul Air Black As Smoke

AL four o'clock on Wednesday morning a diver contrived to fasten hose over one of the vents. Signals followed; the vent was opened, and oh, the glory of Iti pure air came

Into the death chamber.

Revived, the men used the air to blow out more tanks.

Then there was a chout. The last tank had been filled, and the depth indicator showed a flickering move ment.

Herbert would then beat upon the Boor with his feet, the water would be drained from the tower, and he would return to the control-room. But tragedy-and sheer luck-inter- but

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The vessel, imperceptibly at first, with gathering momentum, sloped upward.

Unbalanced brikus pull var sideways.

Uneven tyre pressures Will upset Palance of car.

excessive

+ЯKIDS, winter's worst road I borey, are caused by bad

roads, smooth tyres, speed, too sudden braking.

Make sure your tyres have good treads, and the brakes are working evenly on all wheels.

Remember not to let out the clutch (take the engine off the wheels) when braking, until you have almost stopped. Keep the engine connected but throttled back. That will give you better control of the wheels, prevent them locking, skidding.

Think that at thirty miles an hour you are travelling over wel, skiddy ground at forly-five feel per second. Brake as gen- tly as the emergency will allow.

If you skid after this turn the front wheels into the direction

you are heading. And don't lock Round corners your wheels. don't press out the clutch. Keep the wheels engaged.

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Morse was tried, but failed. was obvious that the salvage operations would be hastened if only vened. tliose above could be made aware of The moment arrived. Herbert Another hose connection let some the exact position of affairs in the slipped the catch of the hatchway of the foul-air out-of-the-control-

Then, with a ghostly_hiss,_the_tip submarine, and Herbert and a col- "Good-bye," said Goodhart, "I'm off room. It was as black as smoke, and of an oxy-acetylene tiame appeared league.

Commander Goodhart, de-, now.'

the spectators marvelled that the above thele hoods.

cut a hole eighteen inches square. clded on a desperate plan.

There was a rush of escaping alr. men could have lived at all. Goodhart insisted that he should Herbert felt himself wrenched off bla Through yet another tube brandy

The tranquil stora of a clear, be the man to make the attempt to feet. He

was shot through the was lowered. One man apologised break from prison and riso to the hatch in the wake of his friend, before taking a sip, saying it was quiet night appeared, and towards one by one, the forty-eight surface.

thrown upward through the wheel the first time he had ever touched them,

blown spirits!

survivors ellmbed. Eager hands helped them; from the cluster of of suggestions on pieces

Suddenly at the lights in the ves boats around came cheers and shouts tails a he died he coolly wrote de- house, and, by a miracle,

through the hatch in its root.

few seconds later he astonished set went out and the men were paper and placed them in a tin box,

hours For which he fastened to his belt. the eager workers on the surface by plunged in darkness. The forty-eight others were gath- The escape had to be an elaborate emerging, exhausted, but alive. they walled, the danger of the sum-

in the control-room, and at

"Where's Gondbart?" he panted. marine slipping back again into the well as a dangerous operation.

water vivid in their minds. to work to endeavour to Pressures had to be balanced before No one had seen him. raise the ship.

"This Looks Like The End" Ears were oppressed; orders were scarcely heard, but the watertight doors between the compartments

were stammed to-and by the neces- sary act thirty-two men in the stern were doomed.

cred

once set

Tank after tank was blown free of water by compressed air, but the waterlogged stern held her in deadly anchorage.

But not by word or sim did any mun betray a trace of fear.

"This looks like the end,** said

one.

"Yes," replied his friend ensually, "I'm afraid it is."

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