COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, JR. AND ANNA CRAFTS CODMAN
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1917

CONTENTS

[Foreword by the Translator]vii
[Introduction by John Hays Hammond, Jr.: The Challenge to Naval Supremacy]xi
I.[Ordered to command a Submarine]1
II.[Breathing and Living Conditions under Water]6
III.[Submersion and Torpedo Fire]17
IV.[Mobilization and the Beginning of the Commercial War]39
V.[Our own Part in the Commercial War and our First Captured Steamer]53
VI.[The Capture of two Prize Steamers]74
VII.[Off the Coast of England]97
VIII.[The Method of Sinking and Raising Ships]122

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Passengers and Crew leaving a Sinking Liner torpedoed by a German Submarine in the Mediterranean]Frontispiece
[Interior of a Submarine]xliv
[A Torpedoed Schooner]36
[German Submarines U 13, U 5, U 11, U 3, and U 16 in Kiel Harbor]40
[Von Forstner's Submarine (U 28) in Action in the North Sea: A Series of Photographs taken from the Deck of one of her Victims]
From the London Graphic, March 27, 1915		78
[Lifeboat leaving the Sinking P. and O. Liner Arabia]98
[British Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle, showing Red Cross on Bow, sunk in the English Channel by a German Submarine]126