Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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The World War's Deep Sea Spy Nothing was more striking during the Great War than the accuracy of the knowledge gained by the British Naval Intelli- gence Department of the movements of the German war vessels, their signal codes and theexact locality of eieh field mine as it was laid. So prompt and accurate was the information gained, from sources which were kept secret from ever the naval officers themselves, that it was no uncommon thing for a mine field laid ey the enemy one day to be destroyed by the Allies the next, The British Secret Service was given the credit for obtaining this information. In nineteen hundred and fourteen there was in the navy a diver, named E. C. Miller, who had ' been found to be very proficient, full of courage, fearless, and able to withstand atmospheric pressure at greater depths than most men. He had been diving instructor at Whale Island, and he soon attracted the attention of his superiors by his daring. One day it occurred to the Admiralty to send down Diver Miller to a German U-boat, which had been sunk off the Kentish coast, in order to bring up inforaation concerning certain apparatus on board. Miller descended to the sub- marine, got in by a great hole in the hull, and with the aid of his powerful electric lamp examined the apparatus. Suddenly he saw aft a door to the offieer's quarters. This he forced open, and discovered an iron box, which he took to the surface. It contained several books and loose papers. Judge the delight of the officers when they realized that the books contained two secret codes used in the German Navy, together with a third one used to cem unicate with the High Seas Fleet, while the loose sheets were part of a plan of a mine field laid only three days before. Miller's exploit at once led to the formation of a special flying squad, complete with diving apparatus, ready to proceed to any point on the British coast near which an enemy submarine was sunk. A few days after a U-boat was sunk eff the Yorkshire coast, and thither went the party with all speed. Examination of the hull by the diver showed only a small hole into which it was impossible to crawl, whereupon Miller decided to blast off the top of the conning tower. He had taken down with him a guncotton charge, together with a firing circuit. He attached the charge and, returning to the surface, ordered it exploded. On descending again, he found the lid of the eonning tower blown off and the body of a German seaman with his head above the top of the tower, as though peering out. Climbing into the vessel, he pushed himself among the imprisoned corpses, which at once crowded around him, attracted probably by the air in his dress, so that he had to tie them with lanyards before he could search the interior. At last he found the strongbox, and with considerable difficulty managed to get it outside the wreck, attach a rope to it and then give the signal to haul up. The box contained a set of new codes, and plans of two complete new mine fields.

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