Word: squalus
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...long, bare room in the Portsmouth Navy Yard Administration Building last week, four white-gloved officers of the U. S. Navy inquired into the sinking of the U. S. submarine Squalus (TIME, June 5). Before the board of inquiry sat the 33 survivors, including the lost boat's square-chinned, grave-eyed commander, Lieut. Oliver F. Naquin. Absent: the 26 who died...
...sink? Oliver Naquin as well as the board tried to get at the answer as fast and finally as possible. By Navy practice, he was recorded as the defendant. This technical procedure was very real to him, for any evidence or finding that misconduct or negligence had sunk the Squalus would sink...
...crew and the world: "The submarine Phénix has been missing for 36 hours; all hope is lost." For the third time within a month a big modern submarine of a democratic navy had made a routine dive and somehow settled to the bottom. The U. S. S. Squalus lost 26 men, the British submarine Thetis, 99. The Phénix'?, toll...
...disappeared is 365 to 375 feet deep. Built to stand pressures down to 330 feet, the hull of the submarine probably collapsed when it plunged to the bottom. Persistent oil slicks on the surface confirmed this theory. France, which possesses no escape bells of the type used in the Squalus rescue, had just opened negotiations with the U. S. for the purchase of four, but even if one had been available it would have been useless...
...Squalus disaster was the first where sailors trapped in a submarine were rescued...