SUBMARINE COFFIN.
SOLVING THE VICTIMS OF C 11. Rough seas have made the salving of submarine C 11 a work of great difficulty and anxiety, there being few more exposed parts of the coast than where she foundered 10 miles off Cromer. 'Something like 80 steel hawsers, most of them 9in in circumference, have snapped since the salvage operations were commenced. Tiie most Cll has been raised from the bed of the sea is about Oft.
The battleship Victorious, the tor-pedo-boat destroyers Quail and Dove, and two lighters and two tugs have been stationed near the buoy which marks the spot where C 11 sank. Six divers are on board the lighters. Their work consists in fastening the steel hawsers round the end of C 11, so that the capstans on the lighters may bring her to the surface. The battleship and torpedo-boats are stationed there to afford assistance and protection, the two latter boats visiting Yarmouth in turn for food supplies. When the submarine is raised to the surface she will be slowly towed by the two tugs to the Cromer beach, protected on either side by H.M.s. Victorious and H.M.s. Dove.
No vessel will be allowed to approach her when she is beached at Cromer, and the greatest precautions will be taken, both by police, and navy officials to prevent the public ‘approaching her. The -water will then be pumped from C 11, the 13 bodies inside her being left undisturbed. When the submarine rs made airtight she will he towed again out to sea and taken to Sheerness.
Following in her wake will be the battlesliip Victorious'and the two destroyers. It will be a form of naval funeral procession through the North Sea—an impressive and mournful sight. In the naval section of Gillingham cemetery, near Chatham, 13 graves are ready to receive the bodies of the victims, which will be interred immediately after the inquest has been held.
.[Cable message has since been received that the salvaging of the C 11 lias been abandoned, and funeral rites held over the sunken vessel.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2616, 25 September 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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345SUBMARINE COFFIN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2616, 25 September 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)
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