SEA-LIONS AND SUBMARINE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 9

SEA-LIONS AND SUBMARINE.

- • J- • n. »■ j; * STALKING U-BOATSBY v 5 SOUND* : J ' • ' , W>R;TBIE' ' r (no* tw' ow* ' v ' ' X ' % ~ January 5,. , Not' a few of-'the\ erstwhile 'i&ush hush" methods that were josed bat the Gorman, submarine;' menaciV - have become since the war, but it may-/be , doubted,' *^hptH6t r people - have heard ■' of the attempts, made in 1917, 'toy train sea-ligjur to, act • as , "U-boat - retrieve,' * : writes tt'e> naVal correspondent of ■ Telegraph "-] \ V ••' - - f*. ;£• 1 Fantastic as this M; may v-souad,, the archives of th© Adffliralty contain the full story/ which, & r spite'of ,the grim purpose behind it all,, has distinctly humorous elements. - ■ >"• .■ <'> ■,;, ■Early V 1917 there Occurred: to an. officer of the British Navy > ioue idea 1 of ,training sea-lionß to stalk submarines, as the sportsman's intelligent < dog "points"''the "pre^enea' 1 of a bijrd and' thus gives his master the optiortunity'for' a shot, ' , r Oface a U-boat lias« submerged, ata whereabouts become largely.* at'matter "of guesswork, and',depth-charges *haye, to be dropped more or '3ess atj random. Acute Stewe/of Hearing.f Now the 'sea-lion, a moat intelligent creature,, is" gifted with a wonderfully acute sense or-• k® aT *®B; .Hopes wero therefore cherished,' that it could be trained to detect noise set up by the electric mptors,of a sub--merged -U-boat, — to whose body 'Tws6,i attached';' bladder aboye the surfii«Awoijld BWiai the submarine;' v its P re ". offering an easy, nark fo* a&tli-chargea. What would have happtfi&d to the f 'aca retriever'' when the 3001b. charge* of T.N.T. began to> explode', m the dfepth# is Saot,told in. the r offieial reports, - but may'easily be Unaginfed/ - * / Experiments condjictedat Bala Lake, North Wales, headquarters being established- at,, Glanllynj.the fishing lodge 0f Sir WatkUTWiUiams Wynn. Nean 'at hand were ( erected j 'stables - for fifty, of the one of the flrsf.W ;be successfully tram--ed. waa a f gmalesboiit three,,yeara old, lent -by thevltf ndo»%Zoologieal > Society. 1 The v • preliminary instruction >in;i% Swimming'■ pool, wh|re, their sounds under ! water, was tested?" a ;pfeTticulaTly ; ipt.,pupil, and,as each successful attempt - jdus made* was re* warded by. a generous' meal of' fish she soon /bocajtn<! , -;-;;«in ; '.enthusiast, for the' game, ' A wire muzzle, was 'fitted oyer her jnofcth to prevent her from' chasing fish,' ■ 1 " • ' ,■ At Bala si® was taken out into the lake in a launch" and released'from her' crate. Some' distance from ,the launch a, 80und?producing mechanising enclosed in a metal case,- wafi l< suspended well below the surface froin bnoy. Mor? often'■ than,, not '• would start. swimming straight towards* the' sounoj' producing" apparatus, 800 ptds a few foments fitter fb& meehanisra set A motion. On reaching, the point whete'the ''buzzed*' watf >s®^*<*&■>,«aßggpy

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