Live Human Bait for Deep Sea Fishing, by Vice-Adm. Gordon Campbell, VC DSO | 22 March 1916 | Episode 108
Published on 22 March 1916
There were no more intrepid adventurers than the officers and men of the "mystery ships." These were disguised merchant vessels which offered themselves as easy prey to the German submarines and only at the moment of attack revealed a hidden but a formidable armament.
Their crews took fearful risks, but during the submarine campaign accounted for no fewer than eleven U-boats.
Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, the greatest of all mystery ship commanders, who during the war won the V.C. and three D.S.O.s, here tells of a characteristic manoeuvre by which the U-boat 68 was lured to her doom.