Identifier: submarineantisub00newb (find matches)
Title: Submarine and anti-submarine
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938
Subjects: Submarines (Ships) World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r names : Engineer-Lieutenant L. S. Loveless, R.N.R., and Lieutenant Ronald Stuart, R.N.R , First and Gunnery Lieutenant, both now members of the Distinguished Service Order. It is hardly necessary to add that their commander received the Victoria Cross. He was born for it. It is not often that any man, or any ships company, can repeat their best performance and better it; yet Commander Campbells third victory was followed by a fourth, of which, as the Admiral on his station said truly, it is difficult to speak in sober terms. Four months after Q. 5 had struggled back to port, her men were out again in the Pargust, a merchant vessel on the same Special Service. The ship was going 8 knots in heavy rain and mist, with a fresh southerly breeze and a choppy sea. Like Q. 5, she got what she was looking for—what others run fast and far to avoid. A torpedo was seen coming towards her on the starboard beam. It was apparently fired at very close range,for it had not yet settled down to its depth, but jumped
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246 SUBMARINE AND ANTI-SUBMARINE out of the water when only a hundred yards from the ship. This time there was no choice, and no manoeuvring ; Pargust received the shot in the engine-room and near the water-line. It made a large rent, filled the boiler-room, the engine-room and No. 5 hold with water, killed a stoker, wounded Engineer Sub-Lieutenant John Smith, R.N.R., and blew the starboard lifeboat into the air, landing pieces of it on the aerial. The alarm had already been sounded and 6 Abandon ship ordered. The three remaining boats—one life-boat and two dinghies—were lowered, full of men, the ships helm being put hard a-starboard to get a lee forthem. Lieutenant F. R. Hereford, R.N.R., as before,went in charge of them and greatly distinguished himself by the coolness and propriety with which he acted the part of Master of the supposed merchantman. As the last boat was pushing off, the enemys periscope was seen for the first time, just before the portbeam, and about 400 yards from the

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