THE "HUSH BOAT."

Taihape Daily Times, 5 November 1917, Page 3

THE "HUSH BOAT."

TOOK MR BALFOUR TO UNITED STATES IN LESS THAN THREE DAYS. A lot of mystery has been spun about what some writers have called the "Hush Boat." There is a class of them, but what is the part they are playing in the war? A correspondent furnishes two little peeps at their doings:— It was a "Hush Boat" tha carried Mr Balfour across the Atlantic. She is the pride of the Navy. The greatest ship of the and out and home she did the trip in something under six days —how much I won't say_ Here is another glimpse of her prowess: I remember the afternoon that the word passed like lightning through a little village that the Germans had by some miracle got something "big" through our blockade—one of the deadliest and most rapid and dramatic of peaceful commerce destroyers, a big raider. Quickly most of the inhabitants were watching one of the "Hush Boats" that lay not far out. Soon she swung clear of her moorings, and, by Heavens! she went on the prowl at knots and knots more than any Clyde engineer believed a ship could thresh through the water. That she did her work all right we knew in time, for one morning, when the grey Scottish mists lifted, there she lay again, silent brooding, the secret of the deed she had done sitting lightly on her massive size, but as impenetrable as the secrets she contains.