Crew members of doomed World War I Australian submarine AE1 were locked in a battle to make their vessel resurface when it suffered a catastrophic failure off the Duke of York Islands in 1914, a report into the disaster has found. Key trim settings were changed but the attempts were complicated by the fact only one of the boat’s twin props was operating, which the report found would have been insufficient to arrest the descent once it began.
Crew members of doomed World War I Australian submarine AE1 were locked in a battle to make their vessel resurface when it suffered a catastrophic failure off the Duke of York Islands in 1914, a report into the disaster has found. Key trim settings were changed but the attempts were complicated by the fact only one of the boat’s twin props was operating, which the report found would have been insufficient to arrest the descent once it began.
