London, June 24. A demonstration of the Davis escape apparatus was given to Justice Bucknill who will conduct the Thetis inquiry, when he visited the submarine headquarters in Fort Block House, Gosport, today in order to familiarize himself with the conditions in working submarines.
The demonstration was carried Out in a great glass tank, at the bottom of which was a water-tight chamber and a conning tower taken from and old submarine. A number of men, dressed in bathing suits and ihe Davis apparatus, entered the chamber in turns.
The chamber was flooded, the hatch opened, and Mr. Bucknill through the glass walls, saw the men shot to the surface, just as they would if actually escaping from a sunken submarine.
He subsequently visited the Portsmouth dockyard and inspected the submarine Triumph, which is a sister-ship of the Thetis—Reuter.
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