. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. aken prisoner onthe U-90 when the President Lincoln was sunkon May 30th, 1918. The U-90 was built In 1916; it Is about 160 , and carries two six-inch guns, one forward andone aft of the conning tower. The captain of the U-90,Captain Remy, boasted that he could make sixteenknots speed on the surface and that he had demon-strated the superiority of the speed of German sub-marines, as compared with the speed of Americansubmarines, sometime previously when he had a* run-in with the U. S. Submarine AL-4.* He saidthat both submarines had manoeu
. Simsadus: London; The American navy in Europe. aken prisoner onthe U-90 when the President Lincoln was sunkon May 30th, 1918. The U-90 was built In 1916; it Is about 160 , and carries two six-inch guns, one forward andone aft of the conning tower. The captain of the U-90,Captain Remy, boasted that he could make sixteenknots speed on the surface and that he had demon-strated the superiority of the speed of German sub-marines, as compared with the speed of Americansubmarines, sometime previously when he had a* run-in with the U. S. Submarine AL-4.* He saidthat both submarines had manoeuvered to fire a tor-pedo at each other and that in so doing both had sub-merged two or three times and that finally he was ableto fire the torpedo at the American submarine aftergetting into position, which he was able to do be-cause of his superior speed. Just as he fired the AL-4dove and his torpedo passed a few feet over her. Cap-tain Remy never submerged to a depth greater than200 ft., though he claimed to be able to submerge* At s ^ o <L) x: G CTJ hn O o dJ n! r; O ^ - (U .™ JZ x; H o J= a; & rt ^ o u. o <u ■*-* n! bn r- n! ■p SUBMARINE OPERATIONS 119 300 ft. The last day out, on the way back to Kielwhile passing through the Kattegat, he travelled sub-merged for over ten hours at a depth of 200 ft. Idoubt if he could make more than eight knots whensubmerged. He carried a crew of forty-two men andofficers. One officer, Kapitan-Leutnant Kahn wasaboard for the purposes of instruction, having had hisrequest granted by the German Admiralty to com-mand a submarine of his own. While I was at Wil-helmshaven Kapitan-Leutnant Kahn came to see mein prison and told me that he had just received ordersto take command of a new submarine. Of the crew of forty-two men, two were warrantofficers, one a navigator and the other the captains three assistants were lieutenants, corres-ponding to our grade of ensign. One was a GermanNaval Academy man, who
Size: 1180px × 2118px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectworldwar19141918
