Sinking of the German Submarine U3.

Progress, Volume VI, Issue 4, 1 February 1911, Page 543

Sinking of the German Submarine U 3.

The escape of the crew of this illfated boat, which has swelled the list of submarine disasters, has helped to fix in the memory of men the new departure alluded to above. Full details are wanting, but it is evident from the sketch cabled that the apparatus in use was something of the nature of the one in question. These men happily were shown how not to drown. Their escape was facilitated by the skill and bravery of their comrades of the fleet, who actually met them half way, by entering the tube of the submerged boat. Unhappily the angle at which the boat was hauled proved fatal to the heroic captain and his equally heroic comrades who remained in the tower. It is melancholy to reflect that had the cylinders been better fastened they would not have been suffocated, but would have been saved, as the supply of oxygen was ample for some hours longer. It only remains to add that the heroism displayed by the crew of the French Pluviose was repeated by these brave Germans. We will not, therefore, call it worthy of the traditions of the German Navy. We prefer to say such conduct Avas worthy of the best traditions of manhood, of which no nation can be said to hold the monopoly.