uly 10, Mrz. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, when making an Announcement of the submarine disaster off Pembroke in the House of Commons this afternoon, said that both vessels belonged to an nstruetional Submarine Flotilly, which was proceeding from Law: Sash, on the east coast of Scotland, to Portland, in Dorset. He there was no hope of saving the remainder of the crew, estimated Bo total 22 officers and men.
Twenty-four Lives Lost A. revised list of the casualties shows that twenty-four oticers an' men perished ju the submarine disaster off St, David's Head yes day, in which H.47 was sunk after caliding with Lag, 'A naval flying-boat hovered over the spot the whole of yesterday evening trying to locate the crati, while mine-sweepers were standing by ready to attempt to grapple and Jift her but their efforts are pracically doomed to failure as the H.47 is lying in over 50 fathoms of water, Submarine £60 dived and tried to communicate with H47 by means of sound telegraph—using a bell with the Morse code—but there were no answering. signals The Official Account In the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. A. V, Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty, announced that, owing io unfavourable weather, the naval authorities had Been compelled to suspend, for the time being, the salvage operations doing carried out off Pembroke in connection with the submarine I-47, The Rear-Admiral Commending Submarines to-day arrived at Pem-Broke Dock on hoard a destroyer, which transferred a quantity of deep. water diving apparatus" to the Battleship Rodney.
The Reay-Admiral then proceeded in the destroyer to the approximate position when the submarine H-47 was sunk on Tuesday.
He reports that the H-it and the H-12 were cruising on the surface at eight o'clock on Tuesday morning when the submarine Lo? struck the H-A7 at right angles. the port side, her bow penetrating two fect abaft the foremost control room bulkhead, HAT yank ipa few seconds. Orders had been given to close the water-tight doors and abandon ship but, from the evidence of the commanding officer, Lieuten-sant Gardner, and the other survivors, does not appear as if the water= tight doors could have been closed The 1-12 was carried down beneath
at an angle of, approximately, Bft the son face fr a distance of 40 fet Segrecs, bows) down, her" captain and the other officers' and men who were on deck at the time being
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