Word: squalus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON learned that its underwater salvage expert. Captain Edward Ellsberg, did not raise the "Squalus" The "Squalus" was salvaged by Rear Admiral Charles B. Momsen...
Contacted in Southwest Harbor, Maine, by "American Students for Raising the Monitor," he estimated the cost of the operation at $250,000. Captain Ellsberg, the man who raised the Squalus, said that the Monitor could be raised by using external lifting pontoons, a method he pioneered...
Ellsberg used the pontoon method successfully in raising the U.S. submarines S-51, S-4, and the Squalus. Ellsberg's nephew, Daniel Ellsberg '52, said he would be glad to try to persuade the Captain to supervise the operation, if the necessary money were raised...