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...Hull, Yorkshire, England...
Higbee's soundman lost the torpedo whine, but his probing sonar picked up a new contact: the metallic hull of a submerged vessel. Depth charges at the ready, the destroyer bore down on the contact. The captain ordered an uncoded message sent to CINCPAC at Pearl Harbor: "Attacked by submarine. Position: latitude 24° 36 min. north, longitude 121° 25 min. east. Am attacking submarine...
...board the Higbee, the echo of the metallic hull came in loud & clear as the ship went in for the kill. The destroyer hunted back & forth, shotgunning depth charges left & right. Satisfied at last, Captain Soballe switched on his searchlights to look for wreckage. The stabbing white beams found nothing, but the sonar still pinged off a metallic hull resting on the bottom 180 ft. down...
...claim. Soballe was ordered back to the area next morning. He found an oil slick spread across the water-hydraulic oil of a kind used exclusively on submarines. That was not enough. The Navy knew how easy it was for an overeager soundman to "hear" torpedo sounds and hull echoes on a lonely watch. False contact, declared the brass, and closed the incident...
GORDON FERRIE HULL Hanover...