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Updated: June 29, 2025
It really boils down to the fact that the greatest feat of the submarine was in its success in slowing up oversea freight traffic and in keeping neutral freighters in port. In this respect the submarine most certainly was dangerously pernicious. But as a positive agency, as said, the undersea craft was not a decisive factor in the war.
At 9 o'clock in the evening we were able to rise and proceed in safety." Here is a human document, is it not? It is the experience of the tarpon at the undersea end of the line, or, in human terms, the hidden drama of man against man, drama of the sort made possible by the ingenuity of this modern age.
It seemed that almost instantaneously with the roar and recoil of the huge gun the shell burst beside the sinking submarine. The explosion was terrific; the whole hull of the undersea boat heaved up, exposing its length for a few seconds. Then the sea-shark sank, going down like a shot. "A hit! A hit!" yelled the men in turret two. A cheer burst from the throats of the whole ship's company.
"You, too, El Demonio?" inquired the general. "Yes, sir; if you please." "But how? How can you take two women and a sick man- "We'll manage somehow," O'Reilly declared. "It isn't far across to the Bahama Banks." "True. That's the route of our underground our undersea railroad. As you probably know, there is a venturesome countryman of yours who carries our despatches by that way.
The vicinity had been swept only a day or two before for mines and it was believed that a German undersea boat had strewn new mines which caused the loss. Another British war vessel was sunk the next day. The auxiliary cruiser India fell prey to a submarine while entering the roads at Restfjord, Sweden, on the steamship lane between England and Archangel, Russia's northernmost port.
Deep down below the water there is a listening "ear" a submarine telephone device through which a submarine betrays its presence; any sound the undersea boat makes, the beating of the propellers, for instance, is heard by this ear, and in turn by the ear of the man who holds the receiver. Presently the man who is on detector watch grows tense.
They'll take precious good care that the trouble and responsibility of it are on other people's hands before they go," declared Mr. Blake. "However, I suppose you're right. Barton Keith sets a deal by your opinion since that undersea search, and while I don't always agree with him, I do in this case. Especially since he is likely to have the laugh on me."
And, according to Agassiz and many another, the entire Peninsula may have arisen in this fashion, from the green-blue sea. Dredge and shovel are laboring hard to guide or check the endless undersea coral growth before bay and channel and lagoon shall all be dry land.
It was during this period that they sent the first submersible merchant ship across the Atlantic and gave further proof of having developed undersea craft to an amazing state of efficiency. On their part the British found new and improved methods of stalking submarines until it was a hazardous business for such craft to approach the British coast.
And by the time Joe and Blake, with the help of Charlie, had set up their small camera, the tell-tale indicator of an undersea boat was again in view, coming straight for the steamer. "There she is!" cried Blake. "I see her!" answered Joe, as he focussed the lens of the machine on the object "I'll get her as soon as she breaks!"
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