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

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The World War's Deep-Sea Spy The excitement at the Admiralty over this further coup can be imagined. From that moment Diver Miller descended to every sunken U-boat that could be located in order to obtain possession of the familiar strongbox. No fewer than sixty sunken German submarines did Miller explore, so that the as- pect of the boxes containing their precious codes Kwhieh were so continuously being alteredl, mine plans and official orders became quite familiar to him. As an instance of his rapid movements, Miller went down one evening to a U-boat which had been sunk off Dover, and hav- ing blown off the conning tower, entered and found the bodies of the crew still warm. nThc machinery had been put out of order by the shell,n Miller explained, Hand, almost uninjured, the boat had sunk, but could not rise again to the surface. The reserve of fresh air had gradually given out, and the fifty officers and crew, realizing they were trapped, had been seized with panic and many had apparently mulcred others by sheeting, afterward committing suicide. The scene was terrible, Some had written letters to their families. Some of these L managed to get, and I believe they were afterward delivered to the rc- latives.0 I Once Miller was asked if he found many fish feeding inside the wrecked U-boat. 'I often disturbed big crabs, some of them a foot across, and lobsters 26 inches or so long. I found scores of conger cols, some of them seven to eight feet long, all busily feeding. They give one a bit of a shock. The greatest depth to which Miller went to reach submarines was two hundred and ten feet, and his descriptions of crawling on hands and knees in a mine field in the pitch darkness in search of a sunken vessel are thrilling. Creeping among all sorts of shellfish, huge eenger cols and other denizens of the sea bottom, sometincs across sands and again breast-deep in swirling sea plants, was surely a thrilling experience of lone- liness and danger. All the conditions for an accident are pro- sent in diving and Miller had several narrow escapes. That mutiny indicated by the of one submarine handle, had been while attempting was hit and sunk sometincs occurred on board the U-boats was fact that as Miller entered the conning tower he found that the commander, hanging onto a shot three times with a revolver from below, to make his escape at the moment the vessel One of the most mysterious discoveries, however, was made by Miller in- a sunken submarine off the Orkneys. He found tmm Um round he of those a couple found a whole crew was composed of officers. On searching a- quantity of neat leather suitcases. Several he opened, finding to his suprise that each contained of suits, collars, cravats and shoes, together with sums of money and other things. It was evidently the inten- tion of that mysterious crew to land somewhere on the British coast and abandon their vessel, but with what motive, still remains a mystery.

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