London
C. Arthur Pearson Ltd.
Henrietta Street
1917

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction[7]
CHAPTER I
How We Came to Join the "Deutschland" and
What I Thought of Her		[9]
CHAPTER II
The Trial and Departure[15]
CHAPTER III
The First Day at Sea[20]
CHAPTER IV
The U-Boat Trap[28]
CHAPTER V
A Somersault in the North Sea[35]
CHAPTER VI
Out into the Open[42]
CHAPTER VII
In the Atlantic[48]
CHAPTER VIII
The Inferno[63]
CHAPTER IX
America[68]
CHAPTER X
Baltimore[75]
CHAPTER XI
The Departure from Baltimore[86]
CHAPTER XII
Running the Blockade[96]
CHAPTER XIII
The Homeward Journey[100]
CHAPTER XIV
The Arrival[110]
CHAPTER XV
The Reception of the "Deutschland" by the
German People		[114]

INTRODUCTION

The voyage of the submarine merchantman "Deutschland" has, for a long time past, been the subject of eager speculation among the nations of the Old and New worlds.

The wildest rumours regarding the fate of our cruise have appeared in the newspapers, to say nothing of the pretty imaginative stories in which the English have announced again and again that we were stranded or sunk, or, still worse, dispatched to America in bales of cargo.

How often we chuckled on board when our wireless operator picked up one of these nice English wild goose stories from the air!

It is with all the greater pleasure, therefore, that I am now about to start on this account of our fairy-like cruise and adventures. Not that it was such a "fairy-like" business after all. It could hardly be that, for we went as far out of the way of adventure as possible.

Readers must not therefore expect to find in this little book a series of thrilling experiences such as are to be met with in the published narratives of the voyages of battleships. Our task was to bring our valuable cargo to America as smoothly and with as few incidents as possible; to get the better of the English blockade, and to return safely with an equally valuable cargo. This we succeeded in doing, as the following account will show. But as events will prove, things did not by any means always work as smoothly as they might have done, and if at times we were in a pretty tight corner and much occurred that was not on our programme, my readers must thank the amiable activities of the English for all these exciting little incidents.

In spite of such things, however, our enemies were not able to hinder our voyage, though they certainly helped very materially in making it more varied and interesting, and it would be ingratitude on our part not to acknowledge this.