5 p.m.
these English , what devils they are ! Here is what happened : Fair Island was away on our port beam when we sighted a large English trawler , which I suspected of being a patrol . To be on the safe side , I dived and proceeded at twenty metres for about an hour . At 5 p.m. -LRB- approximately -RRB- I came up to periscope depth to have a look round , but quickly dived again as I discovered a trawler , steering on the same course as myself , about a thousand metres astern of me . This was the more disconcerting , as in the short time at my disposal it seemed to me that she was remarkably similar to the craft I had seen in the afternoon , and yet this hardly seemed likely , as I did not think she could have sighted me then . On diving , I altered course ninety degrees , and proceeded for half an hour at full speed , then altered another ninety degrees , in the same direction as the previous alteration , and diving to thirty metres I proceeded at dead slow . By midnight I had been diving so much that I decided to get a charge on the batteries before dawn ; I also wanted to be up at 1 a.m. to make my position report .