Morning Departure Page #5

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- A shoal of fish, do you think?

- Must have been.

The sun's come out again.

Hard to port. Shut all watertight doors

and ventilation. Sixty feet.

Shut all watertight doors and ventilation.

- Sixty feet.

- SAILORS:
Sixty feet, sir.

- Emergency stop snorting.

- Emergency stop snorting, sir.

(FOGHORN SOUNDING)

- Flood Q.

- Flood Q, sir.

There's a mine, dead ahead.

MANSON:
Forty-five feet, sir.

It must have been drifting for years.

If the antenna's not active,

we'll be all right.

MANSON:
Blow Q.

MARKS:
Blow Q, sir.

- What's the captain mean "antenna", sir?

- It means it's electrically operated.

You mean, we don't have to hit it, for it...

No lad, we don't have to hit it.

Q blower and Q Kingston shut, sir.

MANSON:
Sixty feet, sir.

- Vent Q inboard.

- SAILOR:
Vent Q inboard, sir.

- Steady on your course, now.

- KELLY:
Steady, sir. Course 128, sir.

(MINE EXPLODING)

I've just had a signal from the Bullfinch.

"Trojan overdue in exercise

Area Baker Charlie.

"Submarine has not surfaced

within visibility distance

"and cannot be contacted by Asdic.

Am searching."

- That settles it, sir.

- Not necessarily.

A number of things may have happened.

However, we must assume

it's something serious.

- Make Subsmash One signal.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Chief Yeoman. Emergency unclassified.

Address to CinC, Portsmouth.

Flag Officer Submarines. Flag Officer Air.

Costal Command,

Channel Area. Admiralty.

Repeated Air Ministry,

all other CinC's Home Command.

Subsmash One.

- Is that you, Barlow?

- Lieutenant Manson, sir?

- Well, what happened?

- I don't know, sir.

We're not flooded, sir.

At least, not in here, sir.

Where's the captain?

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

- Are you okay, Number One?

- Oh, I think so.

I must have knocked myself out.

- Barlow?

- Yes, sir.

I think the bows have blown off.

I'm going to check the engine room.

Come on, Chief.

Everybody else all right in here?

- Andrews.

- Andrews, are you all right?

- ANDREWS:
Yes, sir.

- Are you sure?

- ANDREWS:
Quite sure, sir.

- Get across to the main battery fuse

and see if you can get

the emergency lights to work.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- KELLY:
Hello, Coxswain.

- BARLOW:
Kelly?

- Aye, aye, Coxswain.

- Are you all right, Higgins?

- Yes, sir, thank you, sir.

If I have to get blown up,

trust me to land in there.

I'm thinking, sir, the mine

must have blown off the snort mast

and lifted the induction valve.

- Do you mean the stern's flooded, sir?

- We don't know yet.

No point in making

a mystery out of it, Chief.

They've all got to know.

Poor bastards.

If the snort induction lifted,

1000 gallons of water

would get inside in 30 seconds.

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