SUBMARINE COMMANDER

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 5

SUBMARINE COMMANDER

EXCITING WAR EXPERIENCE. NOW AN ADMIRAL IN DOCKYARD JOB. (From a Special Correspondent.) (By Air Mail.) London, January 30. One of the most spectacular submarine commanders during the war, who had many hairbreadth escapes, has been appointed to one of the British Navy's "Bowler hat jobs"— Director of Dockyards. He is ViceAdmiral C. P. Talbot, who takes up his duties on May 1. Admiral Talbot, who has had nearly 40 exciting years in the Navy, volunteered for submarines in 1905 when they were little more than "tin cigars." In 1915 he was in command of E 6, one of the first two submarines to enter Heligoland Bight, and was all but rammed by a British cruiser during the battle off Harwich. In 1915, when he was a commander, he fouled a submarine trap off Borkum Riff. After trying in vain to get clear, he was forced to come to the surface, where a Zeppelin was waiting and watching. He dived again, and after an hour's hectic chase, during which he was continually bombed, he got clear. Next day he tackled three German destroyers and blew the stern off one—a feat for which he got the D.S.O.

Two days later he attacked and sank a German U-boat and was awarded a bar to his D.S.O.