Word: provincetowners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the S-4 tragedy off Provincetown in 1927 added emphasis to the S-51 tragedy off Block Island two years before, the Navy Department began doing things to make submarines safer. Last week the experiments continued...
...submarine 54, once a coffin for 40 seamen off Provincetown, Mass., now a rescue laboratory stripped of fighting gear, gurgled purposefully down into seven fathoms of blue Gulf Stream water off Key West last week, carrying a trapped crew of 15 volunteers. The U. S. S. Mallard (tender) stood by. After 15 minutes a black buoy bobbed up among the waves. Three anxious minutes crawled by. Then the head of Chief Torpedoman Edward Kalinowski plopped out on the surface. A minute later Lieut. Charles B. Momsen emerged. They were the first two U. S. submariners ever to escape directly from...
...test worked successfully again at a depth of 76 feet. When the S-4 attempted to descend to 20 fathoms (120 feet, slightly deeper than the S-4 lay off Provincetown) her periscope sprung a leak and she had to rise, be towed back to Key West for repairs...
...submarine S-4 sinks (TIME, Dec. 26), off the Atlantic harbor of Provincetown, after being accidentally rammed by the destroyer Paulding...
...daub of foam and then a dark hulk appeared on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Provincetown, Mass., last week. The Navy submarine S-4 had been raised from the bottom of the sea, exactly 15 minutes less than three months after it had been gored by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding (TIME, Dec. 26). It was towed to the Navy Yard at Boston for inspection. Six bodies covered with mud and slime were found in the torpedo compartment. But nowhere was a written record of the horrible last hours of those bodies...