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SETTER surfaced that evening at eight fifteen: Crawshaw had the watch, then, from eight thirty, in greyish light from the continuous but invisible sun which, if it would have shown itself through the haze, would have been low on the northern horizon.
MacGregor’s orders to officers of the watch on the surface during the six hours’ scheduled battery charging were that they were to keen the ship under almost continual helm, steering an erratic series of zigzags, circles or figures of eight, never allowing a straight course for more than two minutes. In this way no enemy submarine could do to them what they’d done to the U-boat, earlier in the afternoon - except by a fluke, or by using a homing torpedo, and although it was reported that the enemy had such things and had used them occasiona
