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...crowd of over 250 people in Pierce Hall last night heard the dramatic story of the salvaging of the squalus from the man who directed it: Commander Charles B. Momsen of the U. S. Navy...
Commander Momsen was at his experimental station in Washington when first news of the disaster was telephoned in from the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, "Squalus is down off the Isle of Shoals, depth between 200 and 400 feet; have your divers and equipment ready to leave immediately...
Commander Charles B. Momsen, United States Navy, inventor of the Momsen lung and one of the directors of the successful salvaging of the ill-fated submarine Squalus, will describe the salvaging operations at a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society in 110 Pierce Hall on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...
Commander Momsen has been concerned with the safety provisions on submarines and was one of the first to appear at the scene of the Squalus when it sank off Portsmouth last...
Inspection confirmed her commander's theory of how the Squalus was flooded. One of her two air-intake valves tested at Portsmouth closed in good order. But the other stuck, closed only after repeated efforts, indicating how death had flooded the Squalus...