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While from an official source, it is not clear if this continues to be part of the official Canon of Leviathans. Accordingly, Leviathans Wiki will treat it as "possibly apocryphal" unless and until an official declaration is made.
See the "Canonicity" section for details.
Letter From Below is a piece of fiction that was posted on http://monstersinthesky.com.
Plot[]
This was a letter dated 10 April 1902, from Justin Farmer--a gunnery control officer aboard the destroyer HML Rapier--to his nephew Jeremy Farmer, son of his older sister. He was responding to Jeremy's letter of 10 February regarding action Justin's squadron had seen at some time before that date that had reached the news.
Their squadron was in the north sea when they spotted a French squadron out of Brest. HML Reindeer, the squadron flagship, fired a warning shot, which prompted a response in earnest from the French. The Reindeer took damage.
The Rapier scored a hit on a French vessel, and then Farmer was knocked to the floor by a shell that penetrated to the spaces below him. Seeing that fore gunnery control was afire, he ordered his crew to move to the aft gunnery control station as damage control moved in to take over. As he and his people moved aft, they found the leather straps of two airmen who had been sent overboard. Pulling them up by their harnesses, they found that one was dead and the other had taken a head injury.
Shortly after they reached aft gunnery control, the French broke off, and the Rapier moved to assist the Reindeer which was losing altitude due to an electroid tank hit.
Farmer's left eardrum had burst and he had difficulty hearing out of the right for a time, but he wrote that his hearing was returning. The Rapier was repaired and preparing to go back out on patrol.
Notes[]
The authorship of this work was not stated. The likely candidates are Randall Bills, Jim Rapkins, or Blaine Lee Pardoe, as they were all contributing to the site around this time, but it could possibly have been someone else.
Canonicity[]
This is one of a collection of fictional accounts that previously was available on http://monstersinthesky.com and were later taken down. As such it may be used as a source, but is considered possibly apocryphal unless and until some further evidence is found one way or another.