If the American Navy has robbed the British Navy of the diving record, the British Salvage Section still has a few more records left. For instance, when a German submarine was put down in 190 feet of water off our rocky northern coast, the British Admiralty calmly ordered the Salvage Section to bring the submarine to port. In the face of a definite order of this sort, there was nothing to be said. The Director of Salvage hastened to the spot, and sent divers down to survey the wreck and if possible recover the papers. They found an arm protruding from the partly-closed conning tower, the fingers, stiffened by death, clutching as in a vice some of the secret orders which the commander was endeavouring to cast away when he saw that capture or destruction was inevitable. Before he could rid himself of the papers, the submarine plunged to her doom and the cover of the conning tower slammed down on his arm. With an effort, the divers unlocked those clammy fingers and took the papers. Then they managed to raise the lid of the conning tower and enter the ship, although it was practically at the limit of the depth at which divers can possibly work. Their submarine lamps lit the gloom of the interior, and a search brought to light the log and other papers, which were sent post haste to the Admiralty. The order to take the wreck to port was much more difficult to obey. She was down on such a rocky coast in such a position that lifting her in the ordinary way was quite out of the question. Commodore Young thereupon decided to do what had never been done with a craft of this size since the world began, that is, raise her from the depths by sheer mechanical power. The cables were swept underneath, and divers saw that they were properly in place. Then the powerful machinery installed in the salvage ships began to work, and slowly but surely the great steel cables, thicker than a man’s wrist, were wound up until the U-boat was within a few feet of the surface. It was an extraordinary feat to lift this wrecked submarine, weighing nearly 1000 tons--practically four times the weight of the American F.4--from a depth of 190 feet by the sheer power of machinery. The salvors crowned this remarkable effort by carrying the submarine in her cradle of slings nearly 40 miles round the coast, which was another record the British Salvage Section made that month. Just as they got her to the mouth of the harbour, she slipped from the slings and went to the bottom again. Picking her up once more, the salvage men towed her into dock so that the submarine experts could dissect her.