GERMAN SUBMARINE DISASTER

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13279, 19 January 1911, Page 5

GERMAN SUBMARINE DISASTER

27 RESCUED. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. BEELIN, January 18. Out of the submarine’s crew of 30, 27 were saved. They crept through the tor-pedo-tube when the how was raised, but the commander and two. others remain : 'in the conning-tower, which is submerged. There is every prospect that they will b» rescued. The submarine’s crew were perfectly calm They donned life-saving helmets and suits and entered the torpedo-tube, the youngest member first and then the others, according to age.

THE VESSEL RAISED. Missing Men Found Dead. Eeceived January 19, 9.5 a.m. SEELIN', January 10 Submarine No. 3, which sank in Keikendorf Bay, has been raised, but the two officers and the coxswain, who gallantly remained until the others were safe, were found dead in the conning tower, and all efforts to resuscitate them failed.

GALLANT RESCUES. Eeceived January 19, 11.20 a.m. BERLIN, January 13. A hitch in the oxygen apparatus rendered the rescue of the submarine crew difficult. A lieutenant, a petty officer, and a stoker gallantly entered the torpedo tube and effected the rescue of some of 'the crew who were .unconscious. The three bodies in the conning tower showed slight signs of life when they • were first recovered.

The accident was due to a , defective valve.