The submarine L9 was one of the British reserve submarines. She was lying at the Naval camber, with three or four members of the crew on board, sufficient to fire rockets in case of emergency. She broke her moorings during the typhoon and was washed about. The camber became unmanageable and came up against the side of the sea-wall, smashing the conning-tower. Lieut Dickson directed the men to jump ashore, which they did, Lieut. Dickson remaining on board with a view to securing the L9, but she drifted away to the west. Lieut. Dickson then jumped into the harbour and swam to a buoy. Able Seaman Treggus, of H.M.S. Tamar, swam out with a line from the steamer Ginyo Maru, from the deck of which the Japanese crew threw out life buoys. Lieut. Dickson and Seaman Treggus were eventually hauled on board the Ginyo Maru.
At the height of the typhoon a Kowloon ferry-boat ran into the naval camber, where she collided
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