HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1943-04-01, Page 3THURSDAY, APRIL, 1, 1943
Submarine Crews Find
Life A Tight Fit
by "Nautilus"
Undersea sightseeing is sternly
discouraged by the Admiralty and.
few indeed are the permits, issued to
board a British submarine. All so
privileged must be impressed,, aS I
was, by the spirit of easy comrade-
ship that pervades the whole comp-
any, each man knowing his job is
that seemingly inextricable mass of
machinery, each man dependent
neon the other in an emergency.
"It's the highest form of discip-
line," said the Commander: -.a two -
and -a -half -stripe man in his twenties
-who with his First Lieutenant
f("J'immy" in Silent Service parl-
ance) showed me over his '"boat."
Imagine a tubular Pullman car with
tons of complicated electrical gear
and protruding wheels of all sorts
stowed on either side in the upper
and lower berth. Sailors were scrub-
bing down and hurried to and fro
with buckets of water, emphasizing'
space limitations of which officers
and crew alike seemed blithely un-
conscious,
My guides kept pointing out how
really roomy everything was, al-
though the belly of a modern sub-
marine, unlike Jonah's whale, act-
ually consists of a single long bowel
that runs impartially through offic-
ers' quarters and men's mess,
through control room and ward-
FOOD). The cook's galley is wedged
into a small corner, about the size
of the cupboard that goes with a
one-and7a-half-room fiat in New
York. Although the cook reluctantly
admitted that there was not much
room, he, managed to turn out full-
sized meals for the whole ship's
company. When action stations are
.sounded, he just lumps the food out
of the electric ovens and rushes
off to serve the gun. He is not the
only one on board who doubles in
brass.
There is an evident fascination
about undersea life and from the
Skipper to the forty -five-year-old
veteran of the last war, from -'Jim-
my" to the cook, there was nobody
on board who would not have felt
hurt -nay, mortally offended -if
anyone had dared to 'saggest he
Might ,prefer seine other Section of
the war front, No one -made any at-
tempt to disguise the way they all
felt about it. When I visited their
quarters alone, the men were frank-
ly and eagerly enthusiastic.
One snbmerger said:. "This is far
better than general service.. It's so
friendly like and there's not so
much spit and polish about it." Be
that as it may, the men's gaolers
are immaculate with chromium -
plated fittings, blue leather uphol-
stery and a non-stop wireless set.
And, as I gasped my way through a
tot of ovenproof rum -"Nelson's
blood," they called it -I learned
What living undersea is like.
"Well, first," said a man from
Barry, "there's the quiet. When we
switch from Diesel to motors, itis
dead quiet. Then as the hours go by
the air gets used up and the slight-
est effort makes you pant. Why, it's
work to drink a cup of tea, and
turning a wheel is real hard labor.
In summer, off the Norwegian coast,
we were submerged twenty-one
hours out of twenty-four, It's day-
light up there all day and nearly all
night too. Then after having been
down so long, when she comes up
again, the pressure opens the hatch-
es without any help from us and a
man has to hold onto the Skipper's
legs to prevent him popping out like
a cork from a bottle. The first whiff
of fresh air smells awful. and the
first smoke fairly blasts the top of
your head off."
From before sunrise to after sun-
set, the submarine patrols below the
surface, and, if no target slides into
the periscope, the first aim of all on
board is to conserve their store of
air. They sleep as much as they can,
avoid cooking, eschew smoking, and
instead such the new thirst -quench-
ing sweets. When darkness throws
its welcome cloak around them,
they surface and sometimes they
surface into stories. But if the wea-
ther is at all fine they live a normal
life an�;_ luck being with them, can
sometimes sit down on deck and see
the R. A. F. boys raining bombs on
the enemy. Dawn sends them down
again into the dark waters.
I was shown the new thirst -
quenching sweets -milk tablets and
chocolates -and the pemmican that
will sustain life for days and days.
It is put up in specially designed and
rust -proof containers..
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