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Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...
Forty thousand people crowded Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd.'s historic shipyard at Birkenhead. Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, only sister of the Duke of Windsor, said, "I name this ship Prince of Wales. May God guide her and guard and keep all who sail in her." Robert Johnson, head of Cammell Laird, was less restrained: "If I were in Chancellor Hitler's shoes and heard of the wonderful speed at which we can turn out our ships, I think I'd turn on my axis...
Karl W. Kirchwey, Charles Kitchin, William Kruskal, Joseph H. Laird, Nathaniel C. Lehrman, Alfred MacAllister, George C. McElheny, Malcolm Murphy, Oliver S. Oldman, Edward P. Richardson, Frank C.G. Stahl, Bernard S. Straus, David A. Stuntz, Donald C. Wetmore, William Wiggleswortli, and Alan Winkelstein...
Joseph Headen Laird, Dearborn, Michigan--Dearborn High School...
Joseph H. Laird, 18, of Dearborn; Dearborn High School...