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Updated: June 29, 2025
Not to go into all the details, which are given in the last volume of this series, entitled "Tom Swift and His Undersea Search," suffice it to say that the venture was begun. Matters were complicated owing to the fact that Mary Nestor's uncle, Barton Keith, was in trouble over the loss of valuable papers proving his title to some oil lands.
It was more comfortable than the usual submarine, not being intended for fighting, though it did carry guns and a torpedo tube. Tom intended renaming the craft, which had been called Advance, and one day, when there had been some discussion as to what the undersea craft ought to be called, Ned explained: "Why don't you name it after her?"
"Another message from Bud. He says the object dug up by the Brungarians was not the missile. It appeared to be the metal section of a ship's prow, from some hulk buried in the silt!" Tom was jubilant. "Terrific news, Dad! Our luck may be turning!" At the rocket base Tom detailed crews for the three undersea craft which were to take off on the expedition.
It was after I had replied impetuously to this, that she told me of the terror that was about to engulf all life in the beautiful undersea city. "Thou hast wonder, perhaps, why I should be forward enough to tell thee this instead of waiting for thine own confession first," she faltered. "Know, then the reason is the shortness of the time we are fated to spend together.
So we'll have to camouflage it lose it in the underwater jungle noises, so to speak." Bud scratched his head. "How do we do that?" "By amplifying the natural undersea sounds all about it," Tom explained. "Fish and all forms of underwater life make a background noise over the hydrophones, you know."
Officer Cleary was catapulted off his feet and crashed into the steel conning tower wall, with an exclamation of pain. The Dewey seemed to have run hard against an undersea wall. "Reverse the engine!" shouted McClure. "We must have run upon a sandy shoal." Frantically he rang the engine room to back away. But the order came too late.
U-53 failed to terrorise the United States, but it proved to the Admiralty that excursions to American waters were feasible. On February 1, when the Kaiser defied the United States by threatening all neutral shipping in European waters, Germany had four hundred undersea boats completed or in course of construction.
"But Uncle Barton Keith you remember you went on the undersea search with him Uncle Barton warned Uncle Jasper not to go into the Landmark Building scheme." "And Uncle Jasper did, I take it," said Tom. "Yes. And now he's sorry, for not only may he lose money, but Uncle Barton will laugh at him, and Uncle Jasper hates that worse than losing a lot. But tell me about yourself, Tom.
"I should say not!" Ned well remembered Mary's uncle, who had been associated with Tom in recovering the treasure in the undersea search. "Well, if she can't be here, she can't," said Tom, as philosophically as possible. "I'd better run over and bid her goodbye." This Tom did, though Ned noticed that his chum acted as though lonesome on his return.
That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of last year the Imperial Government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats.
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