Crash Dive Page #4

has always returned from a cruise...

with a broom at the masthead-

a clean sweep.

I know we'll do it again.

Mr. Stewart, make preparations

to get underway immediately.

Aye, aye, sir. Station the sea detail.

First section has the watch.

First section, sea detail.

- All set, Mr. Stewart?

- Yes, sir.

- Take her out.

- Aye, aye, sir.

Take in two and three.

Take in two and three.

- Take in four.

- Take in four.

- Take in one.

- Take in one.

Starboard back two-thirds.

Port back one-third.

Starboard back two-thirds.

Port back one-third.

- Rudder amidships.

- Rudder amidships.

Hey, Chief, how 'bout a little relief?

I've been on for six hours.

That's right.

Okay, Mr. Burr.

Oh, Pat.

Come on and take the manifold.

Okay.

Aft torpedo room.

After torpedo room.

After torpedo room. Aye, aye.

Send Rogers to control room

to relieveJohn-

to relieveJohnson

on the bow planes.

Aye, aye, sir.

Sure is close quarters, Chief.

What's wrong, Chief?

My- Nothing.

Um, a little attack of indigestion.

I guess I'll be all right.

Leave me alone.

I'm all right.

How 'bout

a cup of coffee, Chief?

No, I don't want any java.

Thank you.

- Hey, you asleep, Doc?

- Huh?

Oh, hello, Oliver.

You're a pharmacist's mate. What do they

put nitroglycerin in pills for?

- Nitroglycerin?

- Yeah.

That's what they give to people

whose hearts are on the blink.

Why? Something wrong

with your ticker?

No. No, I'm all right.

I was just inquiring for a friend.

Oh, well, if I were you,

I'd tell him to see the doctor...

before he took any of those.

Yeah.

- What is the depth, Brownie?

- Seventy-five feet, sir.

Bring up to periscope depth.

I wanna have a look.

Aye, aye, sir.

Forty feet.

- Get that problem solved, Brownie?

- Yeah.

It was a lane 100 miles long

and 14 miles wide.

See what I mean? Thirty days to patrol a lane

14 miles wide and 100 miles long.

Those torpedo boats could have

patrolled the whole North Atlantic...

in half that time,

with the Caribbean thrown in.

Have you seen those new P.T.s? They've got

everything on them but a waffle iron.

Look.

- Mr. Stewart? Come take a look.

- Yes, sir.

If you were on a P.T. boat with a waffle

iron, what would you say that was?

It's a freighter, sir.

Right rudder, new course 250.

Right rudder, new course 250, sir.

It's a Swedish flag.

Seems to be in distress.

The men are working on something aft.

- They might be shipping cargo, sir.

- Might be laying mines.

Laying mines?

Out here?

Have a look.

Down periscope.

- Stations for battle surface. All ahead

two-thirds. - All ahead two-thirds, sir.

Stations for battle surface.

Stations for battle surface.

Stations for battle surface.

Battle surface,

take 'er up.

Hard right.

Blow one, two and five.

Show them our colors.

- Amerikana.

- Oh.

Tell them to stand by for boarding

and inspection of ship's papers.

Wunderbar.

- Prepare to board her, Mr. Stewart.

- Aye, aye, sir.

I'm sorry we haven't got a P.T. boat

to send you over in, but, uh-

Get this boat back to the sub

as quick as you can.

Commence firing!

Cover Mr. Stewart!

- Achtung!

- Achtung!

Achtung!

Fire!

- Fire! -

Fire! - Fire!

Fire!

That Q-boat's got us outgunned. It'll blow us

out of the water. Don't you think we oughta dive?

Not till those guys get back here.

Come on. Step on it!

Take 'er down, Captain.

Crash dive 'er. We'll take our chances!

Come on!

Cease firing. Secure all guns.

Stand by to dive.

Fire!

It's a cinch they'll

start dropping ash cans.

- How much water we got under us, Brownie?

- Fifteen fathoms, sir.

- Flood auxiliary from "C."

- Flood auxiliary from "C."

I'm taking her to the bottom, Mr. Stewart.

All right, brace yourselves, men.

We're gonna hit.

- Achtung! Fire!

- Achtung! Fire!

Fire!

All right, boys.

Take it easy.

Smoking lamp is lit for 10 minutes.

Pass the word.

All hands,

smoking lamp is lit, 10 minutes.

Thank you, Mr. Stewart.

You better go forward and see

how the men are, Mr. Stewart.

Yes, sir.

Fire!

- Everything quiet and serene forward, sir.

- Very well.

After torpedo room

reports flooding, sir.

- Take it, Mac.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Stand by my hold, Pat.

- Okay, Chief.

- Secure the watertight doors.

- Secure the watertight doors.

- Shall I sound the crash alarm, sir?

- And let that Q-boat hear us?

- Belay it.

- Turn on your high-pressure pump.

Break out the corking tools.

Emergency chores.

Stand by air salvage!

Turn on emergency light.

Hurry up, will ya?

If only I were up there

in one of those P.T. boats.

Well, you're not, Mr. Stewart.

Oh, Mr. Stewart.

Go forward and tell them

to take the torpedoes out of one and two.

- Did you say out?

- I said out.

Aye, aye, sir.

- Brownie, bring out about 10 life jackets...

- Sir?

and bring 'em forward,

on the double.

I don't get it. What's the skipper

taking the fish out for?

Tell Oliver to rustle up all the empty

packing cases and debris he can find.

Help him bring it in here. Men, strip off

your clothes. Down to your skivvies.

- Captain, would you tell me- - When you

can't get away, Mr. Stewart, you play possum.

- Are they ready?

- Yes, sir.

- Gimme those caps.

- Here they are, sir.

- Fill up the impulse air pressure.

- Yes, sir.

- All right, open number one, Mr. Stewart.

- Aye, aye, sir.

- Engine room.

- Engine room, aye, aye.

Stand by to pump 100 gallons

of fuel out overboard.

- Open the outer doors.

- Aye, sir.

- Stand by, Mr. Stewart. Engine room?

- Yes, sir.

- Outer doors open, sir.

- Engine room, aye, aye.

- Pump the oil overboard.

- Aye, aye.

You all set?

- One set, sir.

- Fire one.

Secure the outer doors.

Come along, Mr. Stewart.

Aye, sir.

The captain's hit his head.

Bowman, get the pharmacist's mate.

- Aye, sir.

- Help get the captain to his cabin.

Control room, control room,

pharmacist's mate to the captain's quarters.

- I.

- I. Wunderbar.

Where's that Q-boat?

Bearing 50, sir.

Can you give me

an estimate on her speed?

Five knots, sir.

Well, looks like

the skipper fooled them.

They won't drop any more ash cans.

Now's the time to get away.

Now's the time to get, period.

Mac, how much water do we have to

take in to put her on the bottom?

- 4,000 pounds, sir.

- We're coming up.

- Pump from auxiliary to sea.

- Pump from auxiliary to sea.

- How are the bilges aft?

- Torpedo room's practically dry, sir.

- 1,000 out.

- Put those fish back in one and two.

- Aye, aye.

- 2,000 out.

- When she breaks loose, bring her up easily.

- Aye, sir.

- 3,000 out.

- Secure at 5,000.

Secure at 5,000, sir.

Now we're loose.

Remember, bring her up easy.

Eighty.

- All ahead one-third.

- All ahead one-third, sir.

- Gimme a bearing. Where is she?

- Bearing 52, sir.

Motor room answers

all ahead one-third, sir.

- Right full rudder.

- Right full rudder, sir.

- New course 290.

- New course 290, sir.

- Sixty.

- Can you level her off and hold her at 40 feet?

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