Word: bulkheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through rivet holes in an after bulkhead new prisoners were shown neat stacks of barrel-sized mines; adjacent were the powder magazines. What would happen if a mishap or an enemy shell touched that hold was something they all thought about, seldom spoke of. Other anxious moments came as they listened to the ticklish task of minelaying, or as they waited in the blue, corpselike light when buzzers called the crew to battle stations...
...press reports we are informed that those rescued owe their lives to a "superman," who with Herculean strength closed the forward bulkhead door while the water was pouring through and the submarine sinking at a 45-degree angle...
...bulkhead door between control and after-battery rooms stood Electrician's Mate Lloyd Maness, whom his shipmates called "a swell little guy." As the Squalus sank Maness tugged at the heavy door, which, because of the ship's angle, had to be swung uphill. His job was to shut that door. He had it almost closed when voices from the rapidly filling battery room screamed: "Keep it open! Keep it open!" Maness let the door fall back, counted five men who struggled through. Then as the water rushed toward the door, he swung it shut, clamped down...
...containing a telephone. Four hours later the trapped men heard the engines of the Squalus' sister ship, Sculpin. Through the telephone buoy Lieutenant Naquin reported to the Sculpin what had happened before the line snapped. Nothing more could be done. Somebody mentioned the 26 men trapped behind the bulkhead door. The commander shut him up. The sea, icy cold at 240 feet, sucked all the heat out of the ship; the sweating hull gave off moisture that intensified the cold. The air in the ship would last for perhaps 48 hours...
...Precaution) work last week. At the Admiralty, War Office, Home Office, Works Department and Scotland Yard, men worked three eight-hour shifts. Basements were reconstructed as living quarters, electric kitchens installed, stores of food laid in. Every doorway has been gasproofed and rooms and passages have been equipped with bulkhead doors...