GERMAN SAILOR GIVES FIRST HAND ACCOUNT
OF LOSS OF FLAGSHIP LUTZOW AT JUTLANH
THE HAGUE. Netherlands. July 15.
(Mail Correspondence). — Scenes on
board the German flagship Lutzow
during the Jutland naval battle when
some of the newest and largest of the
German battle cruisers were battered
or sunk by Admiral Beatty’s British
squadron in June, 1916, are vividly de
scribed by P. Krug, one of the Lut
zow’s survivors in a pamphlet which
has just been published here. It is be
lieved to be the first detailed story of
that great battle from the point of
view of the German sailor to reach the
public eye.
Torpedoed by a British warship
early in the engagement the Lutzow.
which was the flagship of Admiral
Hipper, was hammered unmercifully
by the big guns of the British vessels,
and soon became a complete wreck,
a “ship of the dead,” as Krug des
scribes her.
According to ms story iweniy-w^n
German sailors were trapped in the
Diesel dynamo room before the battle
had been long in progress and remain
ed there when the Lutzow, a disabled
hulk, was abandoned and sent to the
bottom by a torpedo from a German
destroyer. Two of these imprisoned
men had been driven insane and were,
kept tied by their shipmates.
After describing the first part of the
battle and telling how the arrival of
British battleship turned the tables on
the Germans, Krug writes:
“Suddenly the entire ship is roughly
shaken. The colossus heaves far over,
and everything that is not fixed is up
set. The first direct hit! The torpedo
pierces the fore part of the ship. Its
effects are terrible. Iron. wood, metal,
parts of bodies, smashed ship’s imple
ments are all intermixed, and the elec
tric light, by chance spared, continues
to shine upon this sight.
“Two decks lower in the Diesel dy
namo room, there is still life. That
compartment has not been hit, and 27
men in the prime of life have been
spared, but the chamber. is shut off
from all others, for the water is rush
ing into all sections. They are doomed
to death . Several 38 centimeter shells
squarely hit the mark, working terri
ble havoc. The first hit the wireless
department. Of the twelve living men
who a moment ago were seated before
the apparatus, there is nothing more
to be seen. Nothing is left but a smok
ing heap of ruins. The second shot
again pierced the fore part of the ship.
The entire fore part of the vessel, as
far as the Diesel motor room was p:ist
saving. Another broadside meant for
the Lutzow* fell short, but a torpedo
boat close by disappeared, leaving only
a few odd pieces of wood and a broken
lifeboat drifting round. It is now half
past seven, and the hostile circle
grows ever smaller. The Lutzow and
the Seydlitz lie with their bows deep
in the water; both are badly mauled.
The fore part of the Lutzow' was in
flames. Shells burst against the ship’s
side in rapid succession. A terrible
sight is presented an board the Lut
zow, and it needs iron nerves to look
i
upon it cooly. Hundreds have lost the r
lives, while many have lain for hours
in torture, and the fight is not yet
over. The bow is now crushed in and
is entirely submerged. The foi r
screws are already sticking half out of
the water, so that the Lutzow can only
make 8 to 10 knots an hour, as against
the normal 32.
“The Admiral decides to transfer to
the Moltke. He gives orders to turn
and get away from the scene of the
tight but the Lutzow has not gone a
mile before she receives a broadside
of 38-centimeter shells. The entire
ship was fdled with the poisonous
fumes of shells, and anyone who fail
ed to atlix his gasmask was doomed
to be suffocated.
“It was three-quarters of an hour
before the lighting installation was re
stored. Then for the first time could
the extent of the damage wrought by
the salvo be seen. One of the shells
had landed in the sick bay. Here there
were three doctors and fifteen attend
ants besides 160 to 180 wounded. Of
all these only four remained alive.
These four werehurled into the next
[compartment by the air pressure; they
lay there unconscious.
“The Lutzow was now a complete
wreck. Corpses drifted past. From
the blows up to the first 30-centimeter
gun-turret the ship lay submerged.
The other gun-turrets were complete
ly disabled, with the guns sticking out
in all directions. On deck lay the bod
ies of the sailors in their tom uni
forms, in the midst of the empty shell
cases. From the masts fluttered torn
flags twisted signal lines and pieces of
wire of the wireless installation. Had
not the lookout man and the three of
ficers on the commander’s bridge giv
en signs of life, the Lutzow would
have truly resembled a ship of the
dead . Below, on the battery deck and
in the coal bunkers, there still lay in
numerable wounded, but there was no
longer a doctor to attend to them.
“Night came on and hope was en
tertained of getting away without a
further encounter. But at 3 o’clock in
the night news of the approach of two
British cruisers and live destroyers
was received and just at that critical
time the fore and middle bulkheads
gave way.
“Orders were given to quickly carry
the wounded to the stern. Then the
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on the lower deck, for everybody is
now bent on saving his life. It is im
possible in that short space of time to
bring up all the wounded, for they are
scattered everywhere. Eighteen men
had the good fortune to be carried up,
but all the rest who could not walk or
crawl had to be left behind.
“The 27 men shut up in the Diesel j
dynamo chamber had heard the order
through the speaking tube, for many,
mad with anguish, screamed through
the tube for help and it was learned
that two of the number lay bound be
cause they had become insane. Inspir
ed by their sense of duty, these sealed
up men had continued to carry on their
work in order to provide the ship with
light.
“The torpedo-boats now quickly took
off the crew of the Lutzow and those
left behind were doomed to death. It
was resolved that no piece of the ves
sel should fall into the enemy’s hands.
Just then seven men were to be seen
running like madmen round the rear
deck. Over-fatigued as they were, they
had apparently dropped ofl* to sleep
and only just awakened. As the tor
pedo exploded, the Lutzow’s bo*v
quickly dipped, and the stern rose un
til she stood on end. Then she heeled
over and sank, forming a great whirl
pool that carried everything within it
into the depths.
“When the roll was called it ap
peared that there were 1,003 surviv
ors of the Lutzow; 597 men had per
ished in the battle.’’
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