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Identifier: submarineantisub00newb (find matches)
Title: Submarine and anti-submarine
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938
Subjects: Submarines (Ships) World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ay motionless on the sea-bed ; no one on board knew when it would be safe to move, or even whether it would be possible at all—for both helm and hydro-planes were jammed and other defects might be discovered. This was a test of moral stability as severe asany yet recorded, even in the submarine service, andit is not surprising that Commander Cooper was eventually ordered to add to his report a special statement on the moral effects of the strain upon his ships company.He reported accordingly, not in the picturesque style of the German officer, exhilarated by his successful fight, but with the brevity of a man of science and the simplicity of a narrator who has nothing to prove.The behaviour of the officers he assumes without a word ;that of the men, he says, was admirable. Naturally it varied with the individual; the older and more experienced men observed the demeanour of their officers,and were content to abide by it; the younger ones showed more difference, each in accordance with his
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See page 285 for text referring to this image. A huge column of water which fell plump on the commander* 288 SUBMARINE AND ANTI-SUBMARINE temperament; but they, too, did excellently, and having been assured that all was well, the whole company settled down to read or to occupy themselves in otherways. In the majority of cases the events of the day had no permanent effect, though for a short time after-wards some of the men would start on being wakened or touched suddenly by others. As to himself, the commander declares that he thought the chances of being destroyed by depth-charges small. To retain this opinion in the circumstances was a proof of remarkable constancy; the constancy of the man convinced against his will in the proverb. And he felt at the time, as he frankly says, that he would much rather remain on the surface and engage an enemy,however large, and at all costs, than endure the strain of a further experience of the kind. It would be likely,he thought, to affect the judgment for some days,causing a tendency to act over-cautious

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