Word: ortolan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam as the V-4's stern...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...
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