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...submarine Squalus settled to the ocean floor off New Hampshire's Isles of Shoals, the British submarine Thetis (rhymes with lettuce)* nosed down the Mersey from Birkenhead into Liverpool Bay. Like the Squalus she was a brand-new vessel, and this was to be a final diving test run before she was turned over to the Royal Navy. Aboard was an unusually large company-103 men. Besides her regular crew of 53 there were civilian technicians, civilian Admiralty officials, a local river pilot and two waiters brought out from a Liverpool catering establishment to help feed the added group...
...five miles off the tiny Isles of Shoals, the Squalus, driving ahead on her Diesel engines, prepared to dive. Machinist's Mate Alfred G. Prien was at the controls...
...just 29 hours after the Squalus had made its dive, the seven men were helped aboard the Falcon. At four o'clock, nine more men reached safety. Three hours later a third group of nine came up. Before nine o'clock the last living men aboard the Squalus, including Lieut. Naquin, were taken into the bell. They had got out just in time. Water in the batteries had begun to generate chlorine...
Rusty Greenhood, only Crimson man who is staying in the mid-west for the National A.A.U. meet this weekend, scored 130 points to take fourth in the three-meter dive. Henham, of Michigan, beat him by three-tenths of a point for third, while second-place Earl Clark was within a point of both...
Boeing's 33-passenger Stratoliner, pressurized to travel above the airways at 20,000 feet, was in her death throes, had broken up in an engineering test dive. Down the crippled ship came, spinning, straightening out, sailing like a piece of ragged paper, carrying the ten men in her to sure death...