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She has a turn at porpoising then; that is from a moderate depth the diving-rudder man shoots her near enough to the surface for the captain to have a look through the periscope a long-enough look to plot the enemy on a chart, but not long enough to give that enemy much of a chance to pick him up; and then under again.
"I'll swim you a match to the other side," said the King. "It's a go," said dad, and they started porpoising across the little lake, and then I thought it was time there was something doing; so I got busy and tied their clothes in knots so tight you couldn't get them untied without an act of parliament.
And the layman may note it with expert men at the periscope and diving-rudder, a porpoising sub can sight, discharge her torpedo, and dive all within five seconds. Steaming back to harbor after our trial run that day, we caught the first rip of the gale which the gummed-over moon and the low barometer had forecast the night before.
When they stay up it is easy enough, but when they are porpoising, shooting it up for just a look around, you have to be looking right at one. What they first saw on the 343 was the wake of this torpedo, coming on at a forty-knot clip for the waist of the ship. The commander of the 343 was on the bridge at the time and saw the wake almost with the cry of the lookout.
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