SEA ADVENTURE
FEAT OF POLISH SUBMARINE IN CHARGE OF YOUNG SUB-LIEUTENANT. CLOSE PURSUIT IN BALTIC. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. December 7. The remarkable story of the escape of the Polish submarine Orzel from the Baltic began at. Tallinn (Estonia) where the vessel was interned after outwitting the German fleet, and the captain was taken to hospital on September 15. All maps and books were removed, except one containing the navigating lights in the Baltic. A 20-year-old engineer sub-lieutenant, knowing nothing of navigation led a small band of the crew which overpowered the guards, ordered the men to action stations and ran out of harbour. Russian and Gorman planes and warships hunted the Orzel for days. Food was scarce. The most perilous part of the journey lay through the Skagerrak, where they discovered that the channel was not deep enough to permit them to dive. They crossed the channel in darkness, under the nose of three German destroyers. It took the submarine three weeks to cross the North Sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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174SEA ADVENTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1939, Page 6
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