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The Merchant Navy, Volume 2, by Archibald Hurd. Sea. The. Mine Peril in Home Waters. By February. 1. 91. Scotch motor. fishing- boats were also included. With it were. associated 2.
R. N. V. R. They were. Scapa Flow. Cromarty, Firth of Forth. Humber, Great Yarmouth, Harwich. Dover, Portsmouth, Plymouth, on. Flanders (based on. Dunkirk), and eventually in. Egypt, Malta, and Smyrna.
Being built. originally for summer yachting. In July. of this year it was decided that. Royal Naval Motor- Boat. Reserve, which had been. Admiralty. should be amalgamated with the.
Yacht. Patrol, which, in turn. Auxiliary Patrol. The. need for more seaworthy, faster. Lord. Fisher's regime as First Sea. Lord. The result was that on. April 9th, 1. 91. North M. L. s. VARIED DUTIESAtlantic.
The. pattern boat was built at. Bayonne, New Jersey, U. S. A.. where all the initial work was. The twin sets of. United States, but the. Quebec and Montreal. The. later M. L. s (after the first.
The M. L. s were. England, four at a. It is a notable fact. M. L. s were. built in 4. As these. craft began to arrive, they. On. September 1st (1.
M. L. s reached. Portsmouth from the other side. Atlantic. The engines. Experiments were. M. L. s at sea. soon after arrival, and it was.
Their fine. form forward and the flat. Like. all other ships that have ever. M. L. s were a. compromise.
They were not ideal. They were able. to sweep up mine- fields where. Mediterranean, in.
Otranto Straits, in Egyptian. West Indies, and. U- boats, and, as is known. German seamen. On the 2. M. L. 4. left Portsmouth, reached London.
Thames. Embankment by representatives of. Admiralty. During that.
Portsmouth. continued to fit out these. Auxiliary Patrol areas. M. L. Some. were shipped again aboard. Suez Canal and Adriatic.
Others. proceeded on their own power, by. French canals, to the. Mediterranean. In these various. Royal Navy in home as well. In no. area were M. L. s more useful than. Dover Patrol, especially.
Belgian. coast barrage and the Dover. During the autumn of. British and French mines.
North Sea for the. Dover Straits. and English Channel against. Channel transports by. At. that time the British mines were. In January 1. 91. Lord. Fisher advocated further mining. Dover Straits, and on the.
Dover. barrage was begun. The scheme. was that mines should stretch.
Dunkirk across the Straits to a. Elbow Buoy, near. Broadstairs. The operation was. February 1. 6th. Drifters. Hoisting in a Torpedo.
This. barrage was well to the. Straits. To the south- west of. Dover drifters riding to their. Straits. It was all.
Straits. and point to the fact that the. In practice. this did not exist. The tides in. the Straits are strong, and the.
The. first really effective. Channel barrage was that. December. 1. 7th, 1.
February 8th. 1. 91. This extended from the. South Goodwins to the Snow and. The mine- nets. instead of being towed by the. These buoys were. OA, 1. A, 2. A, and so on.
On the southern. side were placed a line of light. Secret gaps were left. Belgian coast in safety, and. The. laying and maintaining of this. Dover drifters. It was kept. Dover M. L. s. and by other craft.
Thirty more. drifters were used for laying. Thus, theoretically. Dover Straits. were rendered impassable to.
In. actual experience, it should be. Dover barrage was.
Owing to. bad weather and the strong. Moreover, the German. Secondly. the mines unfortunately dragged.
The. buoys and nets — or as many as. This decision. naturally released a large. When improved. mines were available, the laying. Folkestone- Grisnez deep. It had. not been quite completed by the. Armistice arrived, but.
Auxiliary Patrol, the. Dover Straits by. On. the other side of the Channel.
Auxiliary Patrol. French Navy. and protecting from submarines. Allied armies. The. Le Havre, for very. German. submarines.
It was their. practice to lie about in this. Western Front. A. British drifters had. Just before 5 o'clock. April 5th. 1. 91. Lieutenant J. M'Loughlin. R. N. R., who was in charge of.
British net. drifters at Havre, was informed. French authorities that a. Roads near the Whistling. Buoy. He immediately ordered the.
Endurance, Welcome Star. Stately, Comrades, Pleiades, and. Pleasance, to proceed to sea as. At 7. 4. 0. a. m.
Just. as the net drifter Endurance was. She therefore. sent up a rocket distress signal. Immediately. before this incident occurred. Comrades had felt a shock. It was A. STRIKING CONTRASTevident. Endurance, so heavily as to put.
Still. bungling on her way, the. Endurance's net as had been. Like a skilful angler. Endurance now paid out the rest. The. result was that the German craft. The. Endurance was compelled to let. On. hearing the rocket distress.
Endurance so as to encircle the. The enemy was now. Not. all his wiles could avail him. All that remained.
The. French torpedo- boat Le Trombe. Endurance. Having sighted. Le Trombe dropped. The enemy. decided to come to the surface. Some of the. German crew jumped overboard. Welcome Star and the Le Trombe.
Seven more. Germans were saved by the. Stately. This saving of. Allies in this. respect contrasted with the. German submarines. But. to conclude this inspiriting.
German. prisoners had been accounted. Stately and Welcome. Star remained with the submarine. French trawlers arrived to. German prize in tow.
Comrades. The. Endurance, owing to her damaged. Pleasance. On the way the. It had. been a great day for the. British. and the French naval authorities. The former highly. Wylie, who had so. Endurance's nets.
The. Admiralty decorated both these. D. S. C., whilst. D. S. M. These drifters had. The submarine. sunk was UB2. She had left the. Ems in the afternoon of March. Dutch coast, and reached.
Zeebrugge on the morning of. March 2. 1st. At the end of the. Flanders. she had set out from Zeebrugge. English Channel. In her were. German charts which showed. Dover Straits. — from the South Goodwins to the.
Snow. The submarine had crossed. South Goodwins and.
Outer Ruytingen. Armed. Trawlers in the North Sea. It. must not, however, be assumed.
Auxiliary Patrol were active or. There were. however, for certain. The Dover Straits. Germany to the Atlantic. In trying to forestall. That. was a reasonable supposition. In. the month of May 1.
Rear- Admiral Simpson, the Senior. Naval Officer at Peterhead, was. Thus it occurred that. May 2. 7th, when in lat. N., long. 1. degrees 2. E., half an. hour after noon, the trawler.
Searanger (Lieutenant H. This. stratagem had been tried before. The sea being. smooth, it was not long before. She was a big. craft, with a large. The. submarine presumed that these.
Hull fishing- fleet which had. In accordance with. Admiral Simpson's orders, the. The enemy, taken by. The. submarine began by concentrating.
In a. little while the enemy's after. It. was observed on board both the. Searanger and Rodino that the. It was soon evident. The submarine at. Both the Oku and Searanger. Kimberley. the fourth vessel of the group.
By this time the. It. was now 1. 3. In. this way the career was ended of. U7. 4; having been seriously.
Kimberley. It. was an almost ideal engagement. German U- boat. with her superior gun- power and. It was well. indeed, that U7. Firth of Forth. and would doubtless have. This. engagement occurred four days. Battle of Jutland.
Were the. vessels of the Auxiliary Patrol. Obviously. such craft could have no part in. Jutland. The. duty of the vessels of the. Auxiliary Patrol were carried. British coast, and it was just. Grand Fleet would be. EVOLUTION. OF ENEMY MINE- LAYERScraft.
Thus, on June 1st, three. Granton were. dispatched on the information.
Later. in the same day submarines were. May Island, and the. Mingary sighted a. H. M. S. Warspite. Jutland battle. On the. May 3. 1st, in. consequence of the news which he. Admiral Startin. dispatched from Granton every.
He. sent also fourteen of his. Forth to Rosyth. with cots ready to land the. So. carefully, indeed, had. Admiral Startin had instituted.
Granton for. the instruction of the drifter. Thus a. fortnight before the Battle of. Jutland forty- four skippers and. The. loss of U7. 4 mentioned on the. At the. beginning of the war, as has. Then. came the UC- boats which, based.
Flanders, laid their mines. England. As the commanders of. Flamborough and as far west as.
Land's End. Such was their. From about April. U- mine- layers, based on. Elbe, laid their mines off. British. Isles, including even the west. Ireland, but not in the. Flamborough- south- east.
Land's End area, which was. UC- boats from. Flanders. It is not possible to. U- boats, nor. on what date it was laid. But it. is certain, however, that the.
Firth of Forth mine- field was. April 1. 8th, 1. 91. U7. 4. Other. U- boat minefields were laid soon. Brough of Birsay causing.
H. M. S. Hampshire and. Lord Kitchener; the. Moray Firth, Southern Channel. Tyne, Skerryvore, South of. Ireland, Bristol Channel, Clyde.
Isle of Man, and off. English ports. What happened. U- boat. having once deposited her cargo.
M. L. s. How. consistently and persistently. During the preceding. Scotch. drifters had been working off. On this night the.
Senior. Naval Officer at the Tyne had. Auxiliary Patrol to go to. These. methods appeared to be. Two. torpedo- boats also operated in. Another fishing- vessel. July 1. 0th; three. Scarborough and Whitby; next.
Tyne. three more on July 2. July. It. was reported that the submarines. The situation was so. August the area had to be.
H. M. S. Active or. Lightfoot, with six destroyers. Fourth Flotilla. In spite. Active and destroyers. Coquet Island. Until their arrival. These newly. arrived drifters were at once. Tyne. convoyed by armed trawlers.
This. was about the position where the. July. The attacks.
September 2. 3rd. A. dead- set was clearly being made. Auxiliary Patrol. Perhaps. this development was due to the.
His Majesty's. service, were helping the Navy. On July 7th, farther up. North Sea, a unit of armed. Peterhead. consisting of the Martin, Glamis. Castle, Ibis, Editor, Albatross.
Consort, were at 7. N.. long. 0 degrees 4. E.. when a submarine was sighted to. Twenty- five. minutes later a second submarine.
At. 1. 1. 3. 0 a. At 8. o'clock the Albatross, which was. The. submarine returned the fire.