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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16420, 14 January 1919, Page 8

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A BAKING EXCURSION UP THE DARDANELLES. ' LONDON, December 28. The finest of all the tales of the achievements of British submarines in! war-time is now completed by the official story of the sinking of the famous submarine El 4, off the Dardanelles, early in 1918, with tho loss of her newcommander, Lieut.-Commander Geoffrey White, and all except seven of her crow. ' The El 4 left Mudroß on the evening of January 27th, and proceeded up the Dardanelles to search for the Goeben. After diymg under the anti-submarine nets, she that the Goeben, which th<j enemy had removed a few hours previously, nad gone, so the commander turned back, keeping a sharp look-out for enemy craft. A torpedo was fired at a 6hip. which, it transpired, contained the Goeben s ammunition, causing _ a heavy explosion, which extinguished the submarine's lights, and sprang the forehatch. Leaking badly, the rose •to 15 feet, and the forts immediately opened a heavy fire, but did not hiti her. She submerged to 190 feet, and oontifiued her course, but became unsteady and kept diving, so she was brought to the surface, as she could no longer be relied upon under water, and only three bottles of air "were left. ■ Heavy fire was immediately opened! from both sides of the straits, and a shell hit the hull, just over the wardroom, destroying the tipper steeringgear. A survivor says: "Orders were given to steer from 'below, and we ran the gauntlet for half an hour, only a> few! shots hitting us. The captain, seeing it was hopeless, ran towards the shore. "His last words were: 'We are in the hands of God,' and only a few seconds later I looked for him, andi saw his body, mangled by shellfire, roll into the •water, and go under. "The last shell hit the starboard saddle tank, killing all, I believe." The submarine sank soon afterwards close to the shore, and: the Turks pick- | ed iip the survivors.