The corvette continued to attack, forcing the U-boat to the surface after the bow compartment was flooded.
In the control room the instrument board showed three bow compartments losing air.
"Another bow compartment's lost air, Captain," he said worriedly.
At the moment the vessel was running on standby power from the auxiliary power unit in a bow compartment.
He kept backing away, making them follow him toward the bow compartment.
I whispered to the big Irishman, and made for the bow compartment where the torpedo-tubes are built into the boat; here, too, were the torpedoes.
They had found the bow compartment.
The device was stored dismantled in the bow compartment as a pole about two metres long.
The slugs roared from behind the steel surface of the bow compartment.
The Shadow had again gone into the bow compartment of the submarine.