Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 45922-h.htm or 45922-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45922/45922-h/45922-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45922/45922-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/voyageofdeutschl00knrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). THE VOYAGE OF THE "DEUTSCHLAND" _This translation is published under the licence of The Board of Trade._ [Illustration: CAPTAIN PAUL KÖNIG, Commander of the Submarine Merchantman _Deutschland_.] THE VOYAGE OF THE "DEUTSCHLAND" by PAUL KÖNIG Captain of the Submarine Merchantman "Deutschland" Translated by Vivien Ellis London C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Henrietta Street 1917 CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 CHAPTER I HOW WE CAME TO JOIN THE "DEUTSCHLAND" AND WHAT I THOUGHT OF HER 9 CHAPTER II THE TRIAL AND DEPARTURE 15 CHAPTER III THE FIRST DAY AT SEA 20 CHAPTER IV THE U-BOAT TRAP 28 CHAPTER V A SOMERSAULT IN THE NORTH SEA 35 CHAPTER VI OUT INTO THE OPEN 42 CHAPTER VII IN THE ATLANTIC 48 CHAPTER VIII THE INFERNO 63 CHAPTER IX AMERICA 68 CHAPTER X BALTIMORE 75 CHAPTER XI THE DEPARTURE FROM BALTIMORE 86 CHAPTER XII RUNNING THE BLOCKADE 96 CHAPTER XIII THE HOMEWARD JOURNEY 100 CHAPTER XIV THE ARRIVAL 110 CHAPTER XV THE RECEPTION OF THE "DEUTSCHLAND" BY THE GERMAN PEOPLE 114 INTRODUCTION The voyage of the submarine merchantman "Deutschland" has, for a long time past, been the subject of eager speculation among the nations of the Old and New worlds. The wildest rumours regarding the fate of our cruise have appeared in the newspapers, to say nothing of the pretty imaginative stories in which the English have announced again and again that we were stranded or sunk, or, still worse, dispatched to America in bales of cargo. How often we chuckled on board when our wireless operator picked up one of these nice English wild goose stories from the air! It is with all the greater pleasure, therefore, that I am now about to start on this account of our fairy-like cruise and adventures. Not that it was such a "fairy-like" business after all. It could hardly be that, for we went as far out of the way of adventure as possible.