Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compartments the 33 who still lived began to wait. At intervals Lieutenant Naquin fired smoke bombs to ignite on the surface showing where the Squalus had sunk. He released a deck buoy containing a telephone. Four hours later the trapped men heard the engines of the Squalus' sister ship, Sculpin. Through the telephone buoy Lieutenant Naquin reported to the Sculpin what had happened before the line snapped. Nothing more could be done. Somebody mentioned the 26 men trapped behind the bulkhead door. The commander shut him up. The sea, icy cold at 240 feet, sucked all the heat...
...thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch of a sunken ship. Last week, the best hope of the 33 men in the Squalus was Commander McCann's rescue bell, which was being made ready aboard the squat little rescue ship Falcon, steaming from New London...
...Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut. J. C. Nichols and six seamen climbed into the bell...
Aboard the German liner Bremen when she reached quarantine last week was a fat, middle-aged man who was listed as Herr Bennett Nash. Herr Nash, a lonely fellow, had spent most of the crossing in the ship's bar drinking whiskey neat. Surrounded by reporters and photographers, he smiled nervously, praised the skyline in guttural English, tried to explain that he was in the U. S. to pay a debt. Before he could finish his explanation Army officers whisked him away to forbidding old Castle William on Governor's Island, where he was given a pair...
Since Japan has not formally declared war on China, under international law the Japanese have no right to interfere with foreign China-bound shipping. Lawful or not, however, Japan last week assumed that right and proceeded to stop on the high seas not only a British liner and a French freighter but, what was more remarkable, a German ship...