"Most likely she is a mother
ship for submarines. She has her wireless antenna up and is talking
to some one. Suppose we go above and get in communication with her."
Accordingly, the engines were slowed down and the _Monitor_ ascended
until she was awash. In that position her wireless aerials,
telescopically arranged like her periscopes, were run out and the
wires strung.
Almost immediately she "cut in" on the big submersible.
At that moment the latter vessel spoke the _Monitor_ and wanted to
know who she was.
"Tell him the U-108 out of Zeebrugge," the American skipper told his
wireless chief.
The message, in German code, was clicked out by Hal Bonte.
For a few minutes the two ships flung their wave lengths at each other
and then the _Monitor's_ operator closed the key to say to his chief:
"That chap over there is the _Bergerhof_, mother ship of the German
U-boat fleet with supplies of fuel and food for our enemy's submarines.
She is keeping a tryst here with her children and expects them at
this rendezvous within the next two hours.
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