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hold-down studs, produced enough power to give Perch a surface speed of five knots. One auxiliary engine dribbled a small but steady supply of current into their depleted batteries. The steering. engine snapped the rudder erratically in unpredictable spurts, so they went' to hand steering. Hydraulic power to the diving planes could not be restored, so they worked them by manpower. The deck gun was a twisted mass of metal. But they still had six torpedo tubes that could fire. Perch prepared to resume her approach to the Japanese invasion force. Dave Hurt hauled southward toward Surabaja. A! four o’clock, an hour before daybreak on the morning of March 3, Dave decided to make a trim dive to test Perch’s capabili- ties to descend for attack or escape. Scarcely had the main deck gone beneath the surface when water poured into the hull. Frantically they blew all tanks and cut in every pump that would operate. Perch checked her des- perate dive at a depth of 80 feet, then re- luctantly rose to the surface. When she finally poked her bow out of the water, the, engine room was flooded up to the base of the gen- erators. The stern could not be brought up. to normal surface trim. The hills on Madura Island loomed clearly in the predawn twilight. Her stern dragging, but her head proudly in the air, Perch crawled toward Surabaja Strait. She was done for. She and her crew knew it, for the nearest friendly port was almost 700 miles away. The nearest friendly ship had already been sent to the bottom in the savage and tragic battles of Sunda Strait and the Java Sea. A few battered surface units were fleeing hope- lessly toward the Australia they would never see again. Shattered, dying Perch was the last Allied ship in the vast reaches of the East Indies to advance against the enemy. At 4:30, Perch made contact with the enemy. Three Japanese destroyers,-patrolling off the entrance to Surabaja Strait, wheeled and closed in on this twisted apparition of a submarine. Perhaps they wondered if what they saw could be true. Perhaps, as fighting men themselves, they marveled and were a little proud of the battered enemy that slug- gishly turned in a desperate attempt to bring her torpedo tubes to bear for a final salvo. For some reason, possibly those, they maneu- vered about her, easily keeping clear of her torpedo tubes. Then one of them sent a lone shell whistling past her bow. “Man your abandon-ship stations,” Hurt ordered. Another shell screamed past. “Open all sea valves.” A salvo straddled Perch as her after main deck went beneath the surface. “Abandon ship!” Dave Hurt and Bev Van Buskirk stepped into the sea as the bridge deck sank beneath them. Her tired batteries and shattered motors drove Perch on her last dive under her own power. 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