Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — World’s First Subsea Merchantman Brings Cargo of Dyes to U. 3. [ARTICLE]

World’s First Subsea Merchantman Brings Cargo of Dyes to U. 3.

The world’s first subsea merchantman, the German underwater liner Deutchland, anchored below Baltimore Monday morning after voyaging safely across the Atlantic, passing the allied blockading squadron and eluding enemy cruisers watching for her off the American coast. She carries a mail cargo and 750 tons of costly chemicals and dyestuffs, and is to carry back home a similar amount of nickel and crude rubber, sorely needed by the German army. Fifteen days out from Bremerhaven to Baltimore, the submarine reached safetly between the Virginia Capes at 1:45 o’clock, passing in on the surface, covered by a pall of darkness, which settled over the entrance of the bay with the setting of a telltale moon. The underseas liner is 315 feet long and has a thirty-foot beam and is propelled by two great Diesel oil engines.