Word: sunken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Impeded by rough weather which kept cranes in shelter miles away from the spot where the submarine S-51 was sunk off Block Island in collision with the coastwise steamer City of Rome, the would-be rescuers of any sailors alive in the sunken submarine lost hope. Two divers sent down each succeeded in entering the battery room hatch and each brought up the body of a seaman...
...still troublesome, the two giant cranes Monarch and Century were brought to the spot and succeeded in catching the ends of the slings which the divers had adjusted under the S-51's hull. Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they failed to budge the sunken craft. They tried a second time and failed. It was concluded that the submarine had entirely filled with water. A diver with an oxy-acetaline torch cut a tiny hole in the engine room hatch. A few air bubbles escaped. Then nothing more. The compartment was filled with water...
...sunken vessel is a strong room; in the strong room $4,000,000 in gold and silver bullion. The sea-gropers knew just where to cut through the side of the hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...
...dark altar, in a tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
...issuing from this complex expedition, a main point being that the Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen Dido founded the city...