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The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner

The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner

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Transcriber's Note:



Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.

Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For a complete list, please see the end of this document.

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The erratum inserted between page xx and page xxi has been incorporated into the text. Erratum text moved to the bottom of the e-text.






THE JOURNAL OF SUBMARINE COMMANDER VON FORSTNER






Passengers and Crew leaving a Sinking Liner

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N.Y.

PASSENGERS AND CREW LEAVING A SINKING LINER TORPEDOED BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE IN THE MEDITERRANEANToList



THE JOURNAL OF
SUBMARINE COMMANDER
VON FORSTNER


TRANSLATED BY
MRS. RUSSELL CODMAN

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, Jr.



Publisher's Mark



BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917






COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, JR. AND ANNA CRAFTS CODMAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1917






CONTENTS


  Foreword by the Translator vii
  Introduction by John Hays Hammond, Jr.: The Challenge to Naval Supremacy xi
I. Ordered to command a Submarine 1
II. Breathing and Living Conditions under Water 6
III. Submersion and Torpedo Fire 17
IV. Mobilization and the Beginning of the Commercial War 39
V. Our own Part in the Commercial War and our First Captured Steamer 53
VI. The Capture of two Prize Steamers 74
VII. Off the Coast of England 97
VIII. The Method of Sinking and Raising Ships 122






ILLUSTRATIONS


Passengers and Crew leaving a Sinking Liner torpedoed by a German Submarine in the Mediterranean Frontispiece
Interior of a Submarine xliv
A Torpedoed Schooner 36
German Submarines U 13, U 5, U 11, U 3, and U 16 in Kiel Harbor 40
Von Forstner's Submarine (U 28) in Action in the North Sea: A Series of Photographs taken from the Deck of one of her Victims
    From the London Graphic, March 27, 1915		 78
Lifeboat leaving the Sinking P. and O. Liner Arabia 98
British Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle, showing Red Cross on Bow, sunk in the English Channel by a German Submarine 126






FOREWORDToC


The following pages form an abridged translation of a book published in 1916 by Freiherrn von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. It was written

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