Details of the amazing voyage from the port of Gdynia to England of the Polish submarine Orzet after the German invasion of Poland are now revealed.
The submarine eft Gdynia Soplember 1, eluding the cordon of German submarines strung seress the Gulf of Danzig, and made for the Afler_a fortnight, the captain be. came so ill that he had to be landed Tallinn, capital of Estonia. Here the crew found an all. tanker, an Fatoaian gunboat, five destroyers and two submarines, "Because a German merchantman was leaving the harbour sharily, the ¥stonian authorities refused the Orzel permission to proceed for another 24 ours. At the end of this time, officials arrived aboard to announce' that as. the Orgel had. ex= ceeded the time allowed in a neutral port. by international law, the submarine was under arrest, Parole was not demanded" but' guns, breech~ blocks, charts, small arms and all but five torpedoes were removed from the submarine, Lieutenant Takes Command That night, the first lieutenant, taking command of the submarine cout the binding wires, gagged and took aboard the guard and made an escape, The sound of their capstan revealed their intentions, and destroyers turned searchlights and gunfire on them, 'AL 30 feet from the exit of the ars our they grounded, with bullets being fred at them at point blank venge. They managed to side off the rocks and fo e: eupe. With the light of lighthouses the only guide navigation, they fled submerged. The next day, the captain brought the submarine (0 the surface, charged the batteries, and later landed the Estonian' guards on an island and made a wireless signal announcing the guards" safety, For a fortnight, they cruised ho Baltic, hunted the whole time an frequently running into rocks, They made for the Swedish coast when they sighted a fotilta of German destroyers, but the water was too shallow to attack with any chance of 'AL night, they rose to perisco depth and went ahead, but 3001 allerwardy grounded. After getting again and several times again grounding and extricating themselves, they grounded on the surface, A searchlight from a destroyer time er. thine swung past within few
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