LOST SUBMARINE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 January 1924, Page 11

LOST SUBMARINE

A REMOTE POSSIBILITY

MEN MAY SURVIVE,

Bl CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT Received Jan. 12, 10.20 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. Ii is believed that submarine 1/24 was engaged m a (iniuiny attack on a battleship at tho time uf tho disaster. Viokets Coinnuuy built the submarino , in 1919. She carried a complement of 38, ami was equipped with threo pu/i- ---! scopes, one of which was specially adapted for night work. Tho submarine was 231 feet long, and had a speod of 17 knots on tho surface and 10J knots . under water. j Lieutenant-Commander Eddis, com- . mantling tlte submarine, served in KII3 when the latter grounded at Salihohn on August IS), 1015. The submarine was later interned at Copenhagen. Lieut. ]>>nald Howell Barton, second in command, was, as midshipman, commended for bravery at the landing on GallipoH on April 25, 1915. I According to the naval authorities, a great deal depends upon how L 24 was struck. Ther© is a. remote possibility that the crew were able to eloso the watertight compartments, in which case > they will possibly survive for fortyeight hours. L24 was a mine sower, •and carried fourteen live" mines. The mine sweeping flotilla continues sweeping the whole area. It is the usual practice when a fleet is entering or leaving the Channel for an aerial or submarine attack to take place from Portsmouth or Devonport, and it was during such a dummy attack that the Resolution rammed, The L 24 disaster followed a collision between the submarines K2 and Kl2, in which the bows of K2 were smashed.—Aus.-N.Z Cabl© Assn. LONDON.Jan.iI. Received Jan. 12, 11.5 a.m. It is officially estimated that L 24 is ; lying in thirty fathoms of water, eleven i miles southward of Portland Bill. Little hope is entertained for the crew. Apparently the submarine was rammed by the Resolution in a mist during a very heavy swell. A diving party will descend in the morning, and a lighter specially adapted, for raising the submarine, is being rushed to the spot to try and salvage L 24. The disaster occurred during a fog after the vessels of the Atlantic fleet had opened a course into the Channel at the beginning of the spring cruise.—Heuter. {