Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 241: T-Class Submarine N Twenty-Five (Medium)
Watching Miller leave, Flory turned around and prepared to continue holding his precious briefcase in a daze, saying that he doesn't know what he has to do now. Just as Dr. Flory's depressive symptoms were about to reappear, a black-haired young man hurriedly walked into the compartment.
Norman Heatley is only twenty-nine years old today. He is a shining star in the scientific world. This young chemist is good at chemical analysis, but he has dried up fungi in Flory’s laboratory. Regarding cultivation, geniuses can show his role wherever they are placed. In the end, it really made him find a new cultivation plan, which doubled the output of penicillin.
From a commercial point of view, his role and value are indeed stronger than Qian En, because Qian En only developed a purification method. As long as the procedures are strictly followed, it can be done by any trained worker. But Hitley's work requires long-term experience and accumulation of knowledge, as well as keen intuition and sufficient talent. Cultivating and multiplying high-yielding strains cannot be done by just one person.
Miller and Flory have the same values and vision. Given the limited number of places, they decisively abandoned Qian and chose to take Heatley away, because compared to Qian, who has completed his research mission, he is more Heatley, who has rich experience in fungi, is a treasure house that has not yet been fully developed. As long as he is brought with him, he is not afraid that there will be no source of production materials in the future.
Hitley had black hair and a slender face with a slight whisker. He looked a bit older than his actual age. This young biochemist is only twenty-nine years old. His achievements have been artificially obliterated in history, and there are not even a few photos left.
The reason is to maintain the image of Fleming, the great discoverer of penicillin. In the original history, the discoverer rushed to pick peaches after seeing the paper on the lancet, completely ignoring himself. Research in this area has been abandoned. Even shamelessly counted the research and development results of penicillin in his own head.
Immediately after the war, when the Nobel Prize was judged, because there could only be three people for the same award, Fleming dropped the name of Heatley, who had made actual contributions. Become the chief contributor to the discovery of Penicillin. For commercial considerations, and to maintain the reputation of the explosives award. Hitley's achievements were deliberately concealed and became a victim of the black box of the scientific community.
In the original history, after half a year, Flory parted ways with Qian due to differences in the direction of development, and resolutely took Heatley and a bunch of materials on a passenger ship to the United States. And in this time and space, the young man was still taken by Flory on the way to the United States, but this time he switched to taking a submarine.
"Doctor, I just saw the nameplate of this submarine in the back." Heatley looked panic at this time.
"This submarine is the Thetis."
"What Thetis?" Flory looked at his pale assistant with a blank face.
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"What is the Sittis? This submarine is clearly the Perak." Miller finished speaking with a smile and handed a cigar to Lieutenant Matthew.
"But this is Thetis. I saw her original nameplate in the cabin." the lieutenant argued.
"That was the mistake of the shipyard workers. Some workers just like to be lazy." Miller took out a lighter and lit a cigar for Captain Bernard.
"Now this ship is the Royal Navy’s Perak, and Thetis has been crossed out from the Royal Navy’s ship roster. You don’t need to know more, Lieutenant, I’m paying to hire you instead of listening to you. Complaining, since you have taken our money, you should do your job well. If you perform well, you can get an extra reward when you reach your destination." Miller lit himself a cigar , And then put the lighter into Matthew's hand.
"If I were you. Lieutenant, I would cherish this rare job, know your comrades in arms. Now you are still running for the livelihood after retirement, and you have the opportunity to earn a fortune from them. You can’t even dream of commissions, what else are you dissatisfied with. So Lieutenant, don’t care what the ship’s name used to be, now she’s called the Perak, and it will soon become the property of the US government. "Miller's hard-hearted education made the cowardly lieutenant.
"Captain, how much time is left for us to enter the Atlantic Ocean." Miller asked, turning his head to look at Bernard.
"From the current speed, if there are no obstacles, we can enter the open sea before five o'clock. But you know, the premise is that there are no obstacles. What we need now is luck, pray for God’s blessing. We can all go well."
"Luck? Captain. We have never lacked luck. I'm glad you can answer my question, and your lieutenant. I hope you can do your duty. Remember what I said earlier, you British are too superstitious. Let’s do this for the first time. I’m not accompanied, and there are a group of scientists who need me to appease.” Miller leaned slightly towards the British soldiers in the command tower, and then got into the shaft of the command tower.
"Positive Yankee, that smell of copper is disgusting." Lieutenant Matthew curled his lips, then lit his cigar with Miller's silver lighter and stuffed the lighter into his pocket.
"Matthew, the best thing you should do now is to control your stinky mouth. I said that I don’t want to hear the name Thetis anymore. You still complain to that Yankee, you think he doesn’t know The history of this submarine?" Bernard gave his first mate coldly, and made up his mind to never cooperate with this idiot again.
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"Thetis, Thetis, Doctor, haven't you read the newspaper?" Heatley whispered to Dr. Flory.
"Isn't this submarine called the Perak? I read the ship's nameplate on the control tower before boarding."
"They must have changed the name of the ship. This is the usual practice of the Royal Navy. The salvaged ship is replaced by a new name, as if this ship will become a new ship."
"Aren't you deceiving yourself or others?" Flory said that he had never been exposed to this knowledge, and felt a little weird.
"No, no, this is just a traditional ritual. It can keep new crew members from feeling bad."
"Wait a minute, you mean, this submarine has sunk before?" Froly reacted at this time.
"The Thetis. You don't know the famous incident? Doctor, it is said that in that accident. This submarine killed many people last time." Heatley couldn't help but said loudly.
"To be precise, ninety-nine people died that time." Miller walked into the cubicle and interjected with a smile.
The Royal Navy Thetis submarine accident involved a dark history that was hidden for a long time after the war, but this incident was very famous back then. Because this accident happened too bizarre, and its tragic degree is enough to make a Hollywood-style disaster movie.
At that time, this brand-new T-class submarine had just launched and was undergoing its first diving trial. Therefore, there were not only 53 crew members attached to this submarine, but also supervising officers and instructors from the Navy Department. And a large number of shipyard technicians. At that time, no one would have thought that this ordinary diving trial would turn into the worst submarine accident in the history of the Royal Navy.
When the captain gave the order to dive, the submarine did not follow the crew’s operations and dived into the sea. At that time, the technician judged that the front ballast was insufficient, so the captain ordered a certain amount of sea water to increase the submarine The load of the bow.
This was a customary emergency response method in the Royal Navy’s submarine forces at the time. The operation was actually very simple. First open the front cover of the torpedo tube and put the sea water in, then close the front cover and open the back cover. The sea water full of the volume of a torpedo tube can enter the torpedo compartment, thereby increasing the weight of the submarine's bow, so that the sinking of the submarine's bow can speed up the submarine's diving speed. Generally on German submarines. The Germans will let all the personnel who are not on duty go to the bow torpedo bay. In fact, the practice is the same as that of the British army, but the Germans are more flexible. The posture and balance can be adjusted at any time, of course, the training requirements for the crew have also been improved accordingly.
The captain Woods at the time followed the previous practice and gave the order to turn on the torpedo tubes. The commander of the bow torpedo bay opened the test **** of the torpedo tube and found that there was no water flowing out, indicating that the torpedo tube was dry, but when they pulled the opening wrench, the back cover of the torpedo tube was slammed by the water pressure outside. It opened, and the cold sea water gushed out from the torpedo tube, and soon filled the bow torpedo bay. The submarine suddenly lost its balance. The bow was inserted diagonally into the sea.
At this moment, the rear propeller was still advancing at full speed, and the submarine began to charge frantically towards the seabed. The heavy water pressure accelerated the speed of the submarine's water intake, and soon the two front compartments were flooded. Finally, due to the timely disposal, the sailors closed the waterproof door of the accommodation cabin to avoid the catastrophe.
But this was only the beginning of this disaster. The submarine shut off its power and sank to the bottom of the sea. Due to the excessive water inflow, it was impossible to re-float the submarine by emptying the pressurized water tank with the reserved compressed air. Moreover, the lid of the front torpedo tube is still open, and the water pump cannot be used to empty the seawater entering the compartment. To make matters worse, the submarine that originally carried 53 people is now carrying a full 103 people. The turbid air in the cabin becomes more muggy as people breathe, and the concentration of carbon dioxide rises sharply. Older technicians are already showing signs of hypoxia.
The crew and technicians tried everything to save themselves, but their efforts not only failed, but made the situation worse and worse. They emptied the ballast tanks, fresh water tanks, and fuel tanks in order to increase the buoyancy of the submarine, but they forgot that the front of the submarine was filled with water, and the submarine had lost its center of gravity. Although the buoyancy increased, the submarine did show up on the water. , But the attitude of the submarine is vertically downward, which increases the difficulty for the rescuer.
Only a small tail of the submarine was exposed at the time, and there was no external exit at that location. Moreover, the submarine's hull is almost vertical, and the personnel in the front compartment cannot be transferred to the rear compartment at all. Finally, in desperation, the captain decided to risk self-rescue. Together with the three sailors, he put on scuba equipment and got into the escape compartment of the submarine. In fact, it was a section of the escape pipe with two-way openings and opened the inside. One end of the crew got in and waited for the water to be filled before opening the outer cover. The crew could swim out of the boat by themselves, then close the hatch, and let the next group of crew repeat the work.
At this moment, the hatch is six meters below the surface. The captain and his three subordinates successfully surfaced, but they waited for a long time, but no one else followed them. It was only later discovered that the outer cover of the escape hatch was stuck due to changes in water pressure and air pressure, making the second group of escaped personnel drown alive in that trap.
The rest of the matter involves the dark history of the Royal Navy. At this time, the rescue ship has already reached the stern of the submarine and tied her towing cable. The Royal Navy’s plan is to drag her to shallow water. The area was changed to a flat hull, and then the hatch was opened to enter the submarine to rescue people.
At this time, someone suggested that there was not enough oxygen in the submarine, and the people inside might not be able to hold on for that long. Generally, like this situation, there is a very simple solution, that is, to cut a hole in the boat, and enter oxygen and necessary supplies into the boat.
So the problem arose. The senior navy refused to adopt this plan. They still insisted on using the original method to tow the submarine back to the port. Because in the eyes of the high-level navy at that time, compared with a valuable submarine, the loss of these personnel was affordable.
If the pressure hull of the submarine is cut, it will inevitably cause structural damage to the submarine. Even if it is repaired in the future, it will seriously affect the safety of the submarine. At the risk of scrapping a brand new submarine for the sake of some sailors and officers, from the perspective of the senior Admiralty at the time, the choice of this kind of problem was very simple, and there was no need to think about it. Of course, the safety of the Royal Navy’s equipment must be guaranteed first.
So the people on the submarine were abandoned, and the Royal Navy made several consecutive mistakes in the rescue. When the submarine was finally towed into the harbour, fifty hours had passed since the accident. When the submarine hatch was opened, all the people in the submarine had been sacrificed at this moment. The cause of death was drowning and carbon dioxide poisoning.
There were one hundred and three people in the boat, and only four people escaped. Ninety-nine lives were sacrificed to the goddess of the sea. Thetis was the name of this goddess.
After the incident, the Royal Navy found that the cause of the accident was the torpedo tube test cock. Due to the tight schedule, the final paint job was completed in a hurry, and there was no special inspection afterwards. No one found the test cock. The hole was filled with paint, so that when the torpedo cabin officer opened the inspection hole, even a drop of seawater did not flow out of it. What the crew did not know at this moment was that the torpedo tube was actually opened. So when the opening handle is pulled down, disaster will follow.
"Do you know? Mr. Hitley, this time the total number of people on the submarine is ninety-nine." Miller scared the young chemist with a mysterious expression.
"Really?" Heatley's face turned pale, and his eyes widened.
"Just kidding, we only have seventy-three people in total this time. The supplies are already very tight. We have to cross the Atlantic Ocean. If we don’t encounter obstacles, it will take at least two weeks to sail at full speed. After all, this is An ocean-going submarine is not a luxury liner.” Miller changed the subject cleverly.
"The obstacles you said refer to..."
At this moment~IndoMTL.com~ a shrill alarm sounded inside the boat.
"Dive, dive in an emergency, everyone returns to their posts, and the others stay in their own positions and don't move!" The captain shouted from the corridor and ran towards the power cabin.
"Mr. Peter! What happened?" Miller stuck his head out and shouted to the captain.
"Dive urgently. A German reconnaissance plane appeared in the sky just now. We have been spotted. The captain ordered to dive immediately. Mr. Miller." The sailor nodded to Miller and continued to shout Run towards the power cabin.
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