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POLISH SUBMARINE'S ESCAPE LONDON, Dee, 7. The remarkable story of the Polish submarine Orzel's escape began in Tallin (Estonia) where it was interned after outwitting the German fleet. The captain was taken to hospital on September 15. All maps and books were removed except one containing navigating lights in the Baltic. A 20-year-old engineer sub-lieutenant, knowing nothing of navigation, led a small band of the crew, overpowered the guards and ordered the men to action stations and ran out of the harbour. Russian and German planes and warships hunted the Orzel for days. Food was scarce. The most perilous part of the journey Jay through the Skagerrak, access from the Baltic to the North Sea, where they discovered that the channel was not deep enough to permit the submarine to dive. They crossed the channel in darkness under the nose of three German des’,-'i-vers. It took three weeks to cross the North Sea. The Orzel, with another Polish submarine, is now serving with the
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 7
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