SUBMARINE SUNK.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1564, 7 October 1912, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUNK.

FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.

SOLE SURVIVOR PICKED UP

A MILE AWAY. RUN DOWN BY A LINER. By Teleerapli—Press Association—Copyrieht '(Rec. October fi, 5.5 p.m.) London, October-5. The sinking of tho British subraarino B2 by tho Hamburg-American liner* Amerika, with tho' loss of: fifteen lives,' occurred at 5.30 a.m. yesterday off South Fcreland.. A flotilla of eleveji submarines, with a parent ship, was.manoeuvring six miles off'shore at .dawn "when the Amerika passed. ' The submarines were conducting their evolutions iu a heavy eea, and the first hint of a disaster was when the look-out on. BIG roported sighting a body floating in the water.'. This was Lieutenant Pulleyne, tho second in command of the 82, and the sole survivor of the disaster. The lieutenant, was hauled aboard in a completely exhausted state. He stated that the submarine had been struck, and had sunk immediately, and that ho had been carried down with it. He was unable to continue his story. > Tho Amerika was then seen throwing up rockets. She also launched two boats, but was unable bo do anything; Lieutenant Pulleyno was picked up a mile away from where tho tragedy occurred, and after he had been swimming for thieequarters of an hour. The liner was merely scratched by the collision. The submarine was steaming on the surface with lights burning. Lieutenant Pulleyne and a coxswain were on deck, but the lieutenant did not see. tie coxswain again after ( the collision. Tho officers of the Amerika state that tho weather was clear at the time. ; The submarine crossed their bows nt a speed of ten miles nil hour, while the ship was ■doiag sixteen knots. Only the conning- ' tower of tho B2 was visible. It at once became clem , that a collision was unavoidable, and immediately after the impact the submarine sank like a stone. The purser of the Anierika says the submarine crossed the bows sixty feet ahead of the liner. The Amerika's engines were at. once put to full-speed astern, but it was too late to avoid a collision. The submarine broke , in two like a match. Lieutenant Percy O'Brien, the commander of the 82, and the crew of 14 were drowned.

Divers afterwards attached chains to tho 82.