Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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TRAPPED BENEATH THE SEA Continued from Page Fifty-Seven papers which had to be delivered at any cost. I left the Diesels to go forward a moment, it must have been at about three in the morning. As I stepped into the torpedo room, there carrie a blow which threw me to the floor. In a flash I realized that the most dreaded had befallen us. in the dense fog and high seas another ship had run us down. I jumped to my feet and shouted orders right and left. The roaring of the engines stopped dead and the bulkhead doors crashed shut. As I swung the torpedo room bulkhead door shut, Lieutenant I-I-A. our commander, sprang through. blood streaming from his head. 'Iiloor's awash aft,' he cried, 'God help the schooner that struck us.' Her shrift must have been shorter than ours. There we stood. six of us, trapped in the torpedo room, all knowing what the end must be. Two deaths to choose from, drowning. or sulfocation. I looked through the peephole into the adjoining room and to my horror saw already a foot of water covering the floor. I shrank back with terror with but one hope in my mind, that Sparks. the radio operator. had sent a call for help. I looked again through the eyehole and as I looked, there came a roar and a mighty wave of sea water rose over the glass to obscure my vision, and I realized that we were doomed, for as I stood there the sub was sinking to join the ranks of ghostly derelicts lying on tne bottom of the sea. I turned to my comrades, cold and shaking. They stood cowering with fear. and one relapsed into un- sciousness as, with a slight Jolt. the ship came to rest on the floor of the sea, a man made metal coffin. to rest in a watery grave. They were overcome with fear. 'iThen their fear changed to rage, and they vented it upon the unconscious lieutenant who had fainted from pain and loss of blood. Why had he risked their lives? XVhy had he. a man, condemned his fellow men. as good as he. to die? Why had he plunged on that night through treacherous fog? Then their rage softened and abated. ana, ashamed of themselves, they began to talk of other things than their obvious fate. Why should they fear death? Miilions had died and millions would die. They talked of Life. XVhat they had done. XVhat they would have done. What they should have done. Here was one man. He was to have had shore leave when his ship came in. He was to have seen his wife and children. and now ---- Ohf if he but had his life to live over again. Here was another whose hrst child had just been born. XVaiting for him was a proud mother, and he, would in an hour, perhaps a day. be a corpse entombed in a broken metal shell. far, oh so far from her. 'Thus they thought, all through the remaining night and day. and then the true bravery of the British Limey came to the fore and they ceased to think of death and all such morbid things. The hope of life surged through their veins and they centered their thoughts upon ways to live and not on the lives they had lived. Then came the idea. Like a flash it dawned upon my fevered brain: those great torpedo tubes leading to the outside world. Only the man to carry it out was needed. A man might reach the outside world through them. But two and only two could do it, for once they had gone. those tubes would be filled with water. Slowly I told the men my idea. VVere these men willing to stake their lives upon that slender chance? There was all to gain and nothing to lose. Nlen to do it were not lacking. everyone. myself included eager to try. We drew lots. Matchsticks were the precious chances for life or death. I held them. The two who drew the shortest sticks were to make the attempt for life. The men drew and I kept the remaining stick. It was me shortest. I walked to the tube. 'lVlen.' I said, 'I may live or I may die, if I live I shall try to send help. There is one chance in a thousand that it will reach you in time to save you. Do not look for it. God help you. When 1 am in the tube close the breech and open the fore port. You have acted as brave men should, Good bye.' I o,ened the breech and climbed in. I took a last look at those brave men and there was a lump in my throat as the breech clanged shut. Then the tube became wet as the water slowly seeped in through the slowly opening fore port, I took a mighty breath and as the tube filled, gtoped my way towards the end, and then out into the open water. The pressure was almost unbearable. My eardrums were almost bursting and I thought my head and body would be crushed. Once out of the tube. I shot to the surface. Thank God. I was not siezed with the bends, that dreaded divers' disease. but as it was I was cramped, and only the strength of desperation saved me from drowning. Oh, how good that fresh air felt after the hot poisonous air of the submarine. I didn't know where land was but I thought I saw a darker streak on the horizon which was streaked with fog, and I struck out for it. The cramps having eased, I felt the joy of retrieved life. but after hours of swimming I had HDI yet reached land. Then I realized what a vain attempt mme had been. My head began to swim. and my arms refused to obey me. I was nearly drowning when I struck a timber, a God sent salvation. I raised myself upon it and rested until some of my spent strength came back to me, Then paddling slowly and holding to the timber. I reached the beach. I shouted. several times. and then gave up exhausted. Everything went black and I knew no more until I awoke here. As he finished, I looked at my friends in amazement. Dont stand there shouted Sanderson. NVe must get help for those poor fellows in the submarine. Then he realized the futility of what he said. Those men must have died hours ago. Thus the fate of the S-57 was given to the world. through one of the most amazing and daring escapes from a doomed ship ever made. No one has ever heard what happened to the other man on the submarine who drew a short stick in that terrible lottery. His body was not found on board when the ship was raised nor has it ever heed found elsewhere. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE