Word: squalus
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Bottom. Promptly at 7:30 one clear, crisp morning last week the U. S. submarine Squalus, (rhymes with jail us), Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin commanding, put out from the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to practice fast dives. Besides her commander she carried four other officers, three civilian observers and 51 enlisted men. None of the 59 was unusually nervous, although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines...
...made great progress in submarine rescue work," commented Chester H. J. Keppler, Captain, U.S. Navy, Professor of Science and Tactics and Naval Property Custodian, in an interview last night on the "Squalus" submarine disaster...
Keppler stressed the fact that the "Squalus" rescue crew had been unusually fortunate in finding the submarine located with a list of only 11 degrees on a flat, sandy bottom...