He noticed one small leak at the bulkhead, but it was not serious, and while going to inspect the leak "there was a terrible rush of air from the foremost compartments, and I heard people shouting. from there to the control room and to the surface.
"I realized at once that there was a torpedo tube open, and that it must have been a big hole to cause such a rush of air. I saw several people, mostly /Cammell Laird's men, trying to shut port door number 25. Water was splashing about the tube compartment, ind as they tried to get the coot shut it was gushing through the door into the second compartment."
Arnold said he helped them to shut the bullchead door. He felt no bump as the Thetis hit the bottom, and the ship then rested at an angle.
He fired several smoke candles during the eyening, and more the following morning:
After 11 o'clock that night; the air became progressively. worse, and it was very bad when. Captain Oram and Lieutenant Woods escaped.
Little water went into the main motors, but a volume of smoke came from the door. This was due to a short circuit, and those who had gas masks: put them on, while others put on their' Davis apparatus.
The next attempt to escape was made by four moh, and when they bad-got into the escape chamber he flooded it up.
"We gave them," Arnold continued, "plenty of time to escape—a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes—and nothing happened. - We shut the hatch down and drained the chamber, and found three men dead and the other chap very shaky and. could not last very long Arnold said that in his escape he got caught on some cliffs as he went out òf the wáy out he hit a couple of wires—Reter,
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