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Title: The Voyage of the Deutschland
Author: Paul König
Release Date: June 9, 2014 [eBook #45922]
Language: English
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THE VOYAGE OF
THE "DEUTSCHLAND"
This translation is published
under the licence
of The Board of Trade.
CAPTAIN PAUL KÖNIG,
Commander of the Submarine Merchantman Deutschland.
THE VOYAGE
OF THE
"DEUTSCHLAND"
BY
PAUL KÖNIG
CAPTAIN OF THE SUBMARINE MERCHANTMAN
"DEUTSCHLAND"
TRANSLATED BY
VIVIEN ELLIS
London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1917
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 7 |
| CHAPTER I | |
| How We Came to Join the "Deutschland" and What I Thought of Her |
9 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Trial and Departure | 15 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The First Day at Sea | 20 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The U-Boat Trap | 28 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| A Somersault in the North Sea | 35 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Out into the Open | 42 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| In the Atlantic | 48 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The Inferno | 63 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| America | 68 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Baltimore | 75 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Departure from Baltimore | 86 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| Running the Blockade | 96 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| The Homeward Journey | 100 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| The Arrival | 110 |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| The Reception of the "Deutschland" by the German People |
114 |
INTRODUCTION
The voyage of the submarine merchantman "Deutschland" has, for a long time past, been the subject of eager speculation among the nations of the Old and New worlds.
The wildest rumours regarding the fate of our cruise have appeared in the newspapers, to say nothing of the pretty imaginative stories in which the English have announced again and again that we were stranded or sunk, or, still worse, dispatched to America in bales of cargo.
How often we chuckled on board when our wireless operator picked up one of these nice English wild goose stories from the air!
It is with all the greater pleasure, therefore, that I am now about to start on this account of our fairy-like cruise and adventures. Not that it was