resembling anything but a warship. Thus it came about that on January 27, 1915, the second decoy ship was commissioned. This was the Great Eastern Railway S.S. _Antwerp_ (originally called _Vienna_), which operated in the English Channel. She was placed under the command of Lieut.-Commander Godfrey Herbert, R.N., one of the most experienced and able officers of our submarine service. The choice was a happy one, for a submarine officer would naturally in his stalking be able to realize at once the limitations and possibilities of his opponent. It was a most difficult task, for the U-boats at this time were still very shy, and only took on certainties. Neither in boats nor in personnel had Germany yet any to spare, and there were periods when the submarine campaign fluctuated. Thus, day after day, week after week, went by, and _Antwerp_ never had any chance. The enemy was now beginning to operate further afield, and at the end of January, 1915, for the first time, a U-boat made its way up the Irish Sea as far as off Liverpool, and then, on February 18, was inaugurated the German Submarine Blockade. Shipping began to be sunk in various places, but the western end of the English Channel was now a favourite zone, especially in the neighbourhood of the Scillies; and it was with the hope of being taken for a merchant ship that _Antwerp_ had come out from Falmouth and made her way westward. Thus, on March 12, we see her, about three o’clock in the afternoon, twelve miles north of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. A submarine[1] was sighted steering in a northerly direction for a steamer on the horizon. Here, at length, was a chance. Twenty minutes later, _Antwerp_ came up to a sailing ship, and found she had on board the officers and crew of the Ellerman liner _Andalusian_, which had been captured and scuttled 25 miles W.N.W. of the Bishop Rock. _Antwerp_ continued her chase, and got within four miles of the _Andalusian_, still afloat, but then the submarine dived and was never sighted again. So _Antwerp_ was never able to sink a submarine, and she was paid off on April 5, 1915. During the summer of 1915 there was a small steamer called the _Lyons_, which one used to see in various naval ports, and under various disguises. Her primary object was to carry naval stores from one port to another, but it was always her hope to fall in with a submarine. I remember seeing her one day alongside Pembroke Naval Dockyard, painted a certain colour and with one funnel. A little later I saw her elsewhere with a different coat of paint and a dummy funnel added to her, so that she resembled an ocean-going tug. _Lyons_ also was unable to entrap the enemy, and terminated her decoy-ship period at the beginning of November of the same year.