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...Navy's base at Portsmouth, N.H., three submarines appeared one morning last week for practice dives in the Atlantic. The O-8, the O-9, and the O10 belonged to a class of the smallest (480 tons), oldest (1918) Submarines in the Navy. Age wears submarines faster than any other class of naval vessels, and the eight O-boats would never have been recommissioned, after years of discard, unless World War II had made it absolutely necessary for the Navy to train new crews as fast as possible...
...throaty chuff of the surface Diesels ceased, and the O-9, along with the O-8 and O10 sank into the sea for a deep-water dive. They were built to withstand water pressures down to 250 feet; and off the Isles of Shoals, 15 miles southeast of Portsmouth, they had nearly twice that depth to operate...
Presently the O-8 and the O10 reappeared. The O-9 did not. That afternoon, the Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
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