Word: 132ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lexington. His appointment was doubly important to Naval aviation in view of the President's determination to dispense with the services of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. But flying Captain Kingachieved fame on the bottom of the sea. When the S-51 went down in 132ft. of water off Block Island in 1925 most Navy men thought it was there to stay. There were no precedents, no equipment for raising a 1,000-ton submarine from deep water in the open sea. Nonetheless a salvaging expedition under Captain King, then commander of the Submarine Base...
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