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KING'S

FLOATING AERODROME THAT WAS SUNK

THIS VIEW of HMS. Courageous ptoes an idea of the storage space for planes..

SHIP WAS PLANNED FOR NEWS BY

"BALTIC ARMADA"

By a. Naval Correspondent

HM.S. COURAGEOUS was

a ship which had two distinct careers, with a wor in each.

She was originally planned by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher as "Ballig part

his projected of Armada" in 1818.

This force was to break through into the Baltic and land a force in North Germany. The protecting vessels were to have the beavicat possible guns and the highest possible speed

"Outrageous" Class

Since it was also essential that the ships should be navigable in shallow water, something had to go.

Tacse

What went was protection. ships of nearly 20,000 tons had the pro- tectivo plating of the smallest type of cruiser,

Fisher's great Acheme never material- ised and his successors at the Admiralty were left with three "cruisers" on

outrageous class

their hands-the they were promptly named

Two were completed as planned-the Courageous and Glorious. They joined the Grand Ficet in 1917 and were employed mainly on convoy and recon- Distance work

Their 18in. guns-cach carried four →were too big for their light framing? and gavo constant trouble.

But in ons respect the ships were a tho wero triumphant access they fastest things afloat in all weathers.

In March, 1918, the Courageous war sent on a special mission to the United Rtates. She crossed the Atlanile in three and a-half daya, returning at the same speod,

The third ship of the trio-the Furious-ever joined the Ficet na cruiser.

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Fleet Air Arm pilots 'aboard H.M.S. Courageous, walling to take up olares a photograph taken carlier this year.

STORY

OF THE

ROYAL OAK TRAGEDY

MR.

[R. WINSTON CHURCHILL, First Lord of the Admiralty, told Britain last -month the story of an astonishing feat by a U-boat commander who pene- trated the defences of Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship Royal Oak while she was at anchor in the harbour.

She had been designed to mount two

Mr. Churchill also gave a 18-inch guns, the heaviest over mounted In a warship, but as she came out of the heartening picture showing the builders bands only the after gun was successful war being waged in The other was replaced by a flying-overcoming the U-boat menace. deck, making the ship the Navy's first

mounted.

true aircraft-carrier.

Later, the other 18-inch gun was removed and another Dying-deck added.

Expensive Ships

He revealed that from one- third to one-quarter of the total already been destroyed, and that, U-boat fleet of Germany has the continuation of such losses could not be endured.

After the war, the three ships lay in

Mr. Churchill, who made his state- reserve (or some years. Then, in 1929, they were put in hand to become a classment in the Commons, sald: The way sunk at battleship Royal Oak

Flow of large aircraft carriers.

anchor by a U-bont in Scapn approximately at 1.30 a.m. last Satur- day. It is st a matter of conjec- ture how the U-boat penetrated the defences of the harbour.

The amount of reconstruction can be gauged from the fact that it cost as much per vessel as the original building

gure.

Each of the three absorbed, from first

Ins, about £26.000.000.

Airman's 'Mad

Chase

Over The Tree-Tops'

IN the news to-day are three British airmen driven down and captured in Westphalia “after the maddest chase you can imagine,” and two German survivors of a bomber driven ashore on "the Yorkshire coast after drifting about in a col- lapsible boat for two days. Here are their

stories:

NEWS of the British airmen's THE two Germans had been shot down over the North attempted cscape is given Nov. 3, p.m. by a young German airman in Sea. Two of their companions .Nov. 3, 7 p.m. an interview in a West German had been killed.

Paddling their collapsible rub newspaper. He stated:

"I am very glad that the courage- ber boat with their hands, they cus enemies who behaved in such a landed near Whitby, and were ebivalrous manner have fallen into captured by a railway special

their unharmed. For our hands

constable.

This was the account of the non-voluntary achievement the Eng- lish fliers deserve great respect

by given

George which no German airman can deny capture

Thomas, the officer concerned. to them."

"I was about 200 yards from Sandsend Tunnel when I saw

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"Clever Flior"

When the British plane burst into young man (he is 24) standing at flames as it came down in a potato the entrance.

were able to

feld the three men Jump out in time.

Describing the chase, the German airman sald?

"It was

man ran "As I approached, the away and tried to climb some rall- ings, but I caught him.

When we consider that during thei whole course of the lust war this an- chorage-was found to be immune! from such attacks, an account of the obstacles imposed by the currents and the net barrages, this entry by a U-boat must be considered as n re- markable exploit uf professional skili and daring.

A Board of Inquiry is now sitting at Scapa Flow to report upon el that oecurred, and anything that it say must be subject to revision in the light of their conclusions.

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It appears probable that the U-boat the torpedoes fred salvo of Royal Oak, of which one only hit the bow. This muffled explosion was, at the time, attributed to in- ternal causes, and what is called the Inflammable slore, where the kere- sene and other such materials ure kept, was flooded.

MARGIN OF SECURITY Twenty minutes later. the U-boat four torpedoes, and red three or these, striking In quick succession, caused the ship to capsize and sink.

She whs lying at the extreme end of the harbour and, therefore, many a rescue could be organised from amcers and men were drowned before other vessels. The lists of survivora have already been made publle, and I deeply regret to inform the House i that upwards of 000 officers and men have lost their lives.

BA-

The Admiralty immediately nounced the loss of this fine ship.

Serious as this loss is, it does not aaffect the margin of security in heavy

vessels, which remains ample.

Meanwhile, an intensive search of the anchorage has not yet yielded) It is clear, however, that after a certain time the harbour any results.

enn be pronounced clear, us ony! Carried To Cliff Top

have to rise to the! U-boat would "Speaking broken Engilsh, he said surface for air or perlah.

companion were that he and his

All necessary measures are being survivors of a plane crew of four taken to increase the precautions plane, which in the late war proved, effec- Two other occupants of the were shot and died when the plane tual.

For the rest, i must await the re- "But I was just behind him all the came down in the sea."

Thomas look the airman to Sand- part of the board which is now time. The English pliat rushed be- tween trees, and several times send Station and police officers went examining the events in full technical thought he would take off the roofs for the other man, using the collop-detail.

sible boat as stretcher to carry him of the houses.

"Sometimes during this mad chose to the top of the elf. we were only about six feet above the ground.

the maddest chase you can Imagine. The English plot was a clever, skilful and resourceful flier, who took advantage of every bit of the landscape in his attempt to escope.

of the burning machine.

"I flew some distance away and was the first food they had had since

Look leaving their base. then circled above the meni

Later, they were taken to Whitby ing upward from the ground, they greeted me and clasped their hands Cottage. Hospital and the matron Are both getting on together as though they would shake said: "They

and are not seriously ill. my hand because of the chivalrous nicely fight which we had just finished." They are suffering from exposure."

Graphic Story By Ship's Boy

THE full story of the

end of

Royal Oak-sunk at anchor by the most daring U-boat feat of the war, it was revealed by Mr. Churchill in the House of Com- mons--was told by a boy survivor, 18-year-old Vincent Marchant, of Doncaster.

four explosions. There

were Marchant, now in hospital, dived Into the water and swam about, with hundreds of men, in a sen of oll, unul he hit a rock-then dazed and half-conscious he climbed a el to safely.

Searchlights picked out the hundreds of men bobblag about in the water." Marchant saw friends who had been swimuning beside him "get neized with cramp and go under for the last time.'

Marchant was asleep in his hammock when the first explosion rocked the ship.

"I ran to the upper deck to see Twenty what

happened. had minutes later there was a second

During the same period we have raptured from the enemy 20,000 tons, and have been refreshed by the arrival of new ships amounting to 104,000 tons.

It will be* seen, therefore, that while our Mercantile Marine remain practlently unaffected by the U-boat been inflicted wartare, losses have upon the enemy which, if continued, could certainly not be endured.

sen

I cannot close my examination of the first phase of this severe struggle without inviting the House to realise the intensity of the efforts been re- and devotion which, hos

ever-increasing quired from all the hunting craft and from those engaged upun convoy, not only in narrow waters, but amid the storms of the orcan, and the constancy of the mer chunt officers and seamen who face all the hazards with buoyant and confident determination.

I feel we may commend this part of our war business with some con- fidence to the House.

Mr. Alexander (Soc., Hillsborough) of the said: May we, on this side House, join in the tribute to the per- sonnel of the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine and add our very deep sympathy with the relatives of those who have lost their lives in the

explosion, followed by a third-sinking of the Royal Oak?

then a fourth.

the ship was "By that time iting. She was sinking rapidly. I remembered what happened in 'h Courageous, 80 I stripped -myself...of......all my clothing and tying my safety belt around "my walst dlved into the water.

"Hundreds Of Heads" "Searchlights were playing over the surface and I could ace hun dreds of heads bobbing around. Great volumes of oil siaried to belch up to the surface.

"My eyes started to smart, and the faces of all the men swimming BETESAY in the water turned black. I was caught in a search- light for several minutes and saw that two of my pain were swim- ming alongside me.

"Later, however, they had cramp and disappeared.

"I swam and swam for I don't know how long, but I must have rone about a mile and a half when I felt the rock under me.

"I scarcely.remember what hap- pened after that. I was like a nightmare. I have just a vague recollection of climbing up the sheer face of a cliff about 201t, to 30ft. high.

"Some time later I should "any about half an hour-aix men ar rived with restoratives, They wrapped me in a blanket and Look me to an hotel in the Lown near by."

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SCAPA FLOW DEFENCE May ask Mr. Churchill whether he is aware that the circumstances which he has been bound to report ure very disturbing and that, per- haps, we ought to know whether, at the outbreak of the war, there was or was not a systematic survey car ried out of the harbour approaches to ensure that it remained a safe anchor- age? Can we be assured now that, during the whole period since that survey there have been malatained') properly at all times the boom de- fence required?

Mr. Churchill: Yes and, of course, there are not the old defences fromi the last war that have been placed in position, but there is the inquiry tako very sitting, which will not long, and I should like to have the advantage of reading the report be fore I go into details of this kind.

Sir Archibald Southby (Con. Epsom): Was the German submarine actually sighted Inside Scapa Flow? As soon as the report is received will the First Lord give as much informa-i tion from the report as is consistent with national safety?

sny the Mr. Churchill: I did not U-boat was sighted Inside Scapa Flow, but have given the informa- tion which is in our possession. When the inquiry la completed I shall be very glad to answer some questions if they would add to the Information of the House,

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U.S. Congressman. Is Four ships, including two French from depth charges. ...

The French Navy, who are power- Clasped Hands

As he ripped a hot drink at Sand ships, were unk upon the western.

Incensed By Soviots "Finally I had the machine just send the wounded man sald: "Don't approaches during Saturday and Sun-ful and in the highest state of where I wanted it. I saw how the send us back to Germany. Keep us day, and three others were attacked, efficiency, have also been active and

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (Reuler). but made their escape.

have certainly taken their tall but It! pilot set the plane on the ground here. We don't wish to` return.”

The fliers were given a meal as The British: ships aunk aggregated is not for me to give figures upon.There were heated discussions in of the House of Representatives to-day and how the three men sprang out!

A demand

Mr. by quickly as possible. They said 13,000 tona, On the other hand, it this subject.

SURVIVORS FROM CREWS following

McCormack, during the debate on the should not be supposed that all the losses are upon one side

We belleve, therefore, that out of Neutrality B, that the U.S. Am- U-BOATS DESTROYED about 00 U-bonts ready for action at:

Moloioff'a M. called The Admiralty have hitherto re-the beginning of the war, about one-bassador in Moscow should be re- Hamillon trained from giving the figures of the third have already been sunk or

The Republican, Mr. slaughter of U-boats which have been seriously damaged, and of the largest criticisms of President Roosevelt. proceeding and is still proceeding and latest ocean-going U-boats. the Fish, described the demand as the with Increasing severity,

proportion is at least one-fifth.

"most warlike speech since we de On Friday last, for instance, four We actually hold survivors from elared war in 1917." U-boats were certainly destroyed, in-the crews of three vessels of this

The Choice cluding two of the largest and latest highest class. We must this tako ocean-going U-boats in the German stock of the general position reached Navy.

in the flest al weeks of the U-boat Americons they should put their Nothing like this rate of destruc war against British commerce. Some-country in a position, not of helping for Christianity and tion was attained at any moment in thing from a third to a quarter of pati-God forces, but of helping those

Doring the last week the total U-boat fleet of Germany landing. DR. M. D. MESSANT, 'an onaca-tered during an operation in.faistake the last war.

The main theme of the opponents thellat at the Samaritan Hospital, for oxygen. The pallent, Mrs. Emily for which I can give figures, that is has been destroyed and the gaps Democracy.

to the repeal of the Arme Embargo June, Flower, forty-five-year-old to 'sny, to the end of the sixth week made In the skilled officers and crews Marylebone-road, N.W, eald nt

housekeeper in a Park-lone Bat, died. of the war, seven U-boats were sunk. cannot be speedily, replaced.

On the other hand, the British was that retention might help to end the coroner, It. we look back over the whole Mr. Ingleby Oddle, Paddington inquest recently that he,

Every period of six weeks since the war Mercantile Marine of 21,000,000 tons the war in Europe, whereas repeal in "must have made a mistake" while changing cylinders on the hospital's "No one is infallible..

hospital's one is apt to make mistakes at times, began, we may estimate that 18 Uhave experienced a loss of 158,000, the words of the Republican, Mr. anaesthetic apparatus.

I cannot seriously blame either of tito boats, have been runk, that five have tons by U-boat action, to which may Barton, might be the signal to "start been seriously damaged and poulbly be added 18,000 tone through mines a real war the stupidest, cock-eyed

war in history." or accidents-total 174,000 tons. Verdict: "Death by misadventure." sunk, and several others damaged,

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