. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. / ? 7 ,. SUBMARINE OPERATIONS 105 gram on my desk stating that the U. S. S. Klm-berly, a destroyer at Queenstown, during theprevious night had located a submarine off BantryBay, had hunted it down by means of listeningdevices, and finally attacked it with depth chargesat eight minutes of twelve. In the telegram, theexact position of the attack was given. Later thatmorning I learned from the Admiralty that thesubmarine attacked by the *Kimberley had commu-nicated with Germany by wireless at three minutes oftwelve, or five minutes after the attack
. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. / ? 7 ,. SUBMARINE OPERATIONS 105 gram on my desk stating that the U. S. S. Klm-berly, a destroyer at Queenstown, during theprevious night had located a submarine off BantryBay, had hunted it down by means of listeningdevices, and finally attacked it with depth chargesat eight minutes of twelve. In the telegram, theexact position of the attack was given. Later thatmorning I learned from the Admiralty that thesubmarine attacked by the *Kimberley had commu-nicated with Germany by wireless at three minutes oftwelve, or five minutes after the attack. The posi-tion of the attack—which was of course the positionof the submarine at eight minutes of twelve—wasexactly the same as the position of the submarine, asestablished by the radio direction finder at three min-utes of twelve. As soon as the position of each submarine hadbeen worked out on the charts, such informationwas sent to the different bases or wirelessed to thoseships to which the information might be of use. TheAdmiralty took the grea
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