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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
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once. Two days later she proceeded to Reval in company with a Russian ice-breaker. The ice was very thick in places, but no difficulty was experienced in getting through. These hindrances continued for months. As late as April 28, we find E. 18 accompanied through Moon Sound by an ice-breaker as there were occasional thick ice-fields.The next day some of these ice-fields came drifting down upon the anchorage, and E. 18 had to slip and anchor off until night. Even so* she could not be sure of escaping all danger; for the ice brought down large masses of stone, and deposited them in the channels. In spite of all difficulties and hardships, our sub-marines continued their campaign indomitably, and would no doubt at this hour still hold the mastery of the Baltic trade, if the collapse of our Russian friends had not deprived them of their bases and rendered their operations useless. Early in April, 1917, it became evident that Finland must fall into German hands, and steps were taken to withdraw our naval
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* The Russian ice-breakers freed them from the harbour ice. (Seepage J23. SUBMARINES IN THE BALTIC 123 force from the Baltic. But, for the boats themselves,there could be no return from the scene of their voyages and victories. They lay ice-bound in the harbour of Helsingfors, and there they must end their unparalleled story, for surrender to an enemy so unworthy was notto be thought of. As soon, then; as official news came of the landing of German troops at Hango, these famous adventurers were led to their last rendezvous. The Russian ice-breakers freed them from the harbour ice. All the Russian officers who had been attached to the British flotilla, and who were then in Helsingfors, offered their assistance for the funeral rites, and soon after midday Lieut. Basil Downie, the officer in command of the sub-marine depot, put to sea in E. 1, followed by E. 9, E. 8,and E. 19. Each boat carried her death potion in the form of torpedo warheads with a 20-lb. dry cotton charge as primers. Three of th

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