Dive! Dive! Dive! by J.E. Macdonnell
Author:J.E. Macdonnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Piccadilly
The searching Japs missed their quarry. On the morning of the third day eastward from the Thousand Islands, quarry Arrow became the hunter.
The call âCaptain in the control-room!â brought Grayson out of his cabin, stepping quickly into the instrument-packed room. Pilot was at the periscope, and at Graysonâs touch on his shoulder he stepped back.
âTanker, sir, two small escorts,â he put Grayson in the picture swiftly, âweâre two miles north of Madura Island. Theyâre probably heading for Surabaya.â
âHow nice,â Grayson grunted, and took the periscope.
He sighted the tanker at once, and immediately circled his feet round the periscope well, checking the dispassionate face of the sea for further enemies. Conditions were good for a daylight attackâa fresh westerly was lifting the blue surface into a myriad of whitecaps, excellent covering companions for the small wake of an inquisitive periscope. He was confined somewhat by the Java coast to starbâd, to the south, but northwards the wide stretch of the Java Sea waited with enfolding, protective deeps into which Arrow could sink and flee.
âDown periscope!â A whir of wires, a silent sliding of greased tube. âStarbâd fifteen, full ahead together!â
His orders given to put Arrow on a course at ninety degrees to the line of approach of the tanker, Grayson stood staring at the backs of the hydroplane operators. But his mind was on the surface, projected two miles over the blue and white sea, seeing his target, fat, loaded down with oil and petrol, and the two escorts, ahead and on either bow of their charge, small escort ships.
He wanted that tankerâthey all wanted her. For days now they had been on the defensive, up through the minefield, creeping into the beach, bombed, waiting for the bomb to explode, waiting to die, hunted, drowned in a flood of black water.
His orders had been to avoid detection, not to attack anything, on his way to the beach to meet Trenton. He had Trenton now. He also had six torpedoes waiting in his forrard tubes, and a fat tanker, and a crew of sixty men whoâd been hammered enough.
âUp periscope!â
There she was, a little closer through the thrust of Arrowâs screws, steady on course, a white brush of bow-wave before her heavy snout. He switched to high-power and swung the lens across the skyâthere could be an aerial escort, so close to Surabaya.
The bright sky smiled emptily back at him, the sunlight reflecting down the long tube and shining from his eyes in small twin points of blue.
âDown periscope!â
He could not leave it up for more than a few seconds at a timeâthe wake was white, but the thin tube showed black, a moving stick which alert eyes would be looking for.
âWhatâs on, skipper? Weâre having a crack?â
âYes, major, a nice fat tanker.â
In the past two days he had come to know the huge Australian, a process helped along considerably by Trentonâs complete lack of reserve, and his eagerness to talk among men of his own kind. Grayson had already concluded that
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