Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the six survivors in the torpedo room not immediately safeguarded, when divers first reached the 54, by attaching airlines to the ship's "ears" (S. C. Tubes), as was done when too late, instead of to the ballast tanks, as was done at first...
Dragging Ashore. Old salts of Provincetown early suggested hitching the whole rescue fleet to the S-4 and dragging her to shallow water. Rear Admiral Frank Brumby, in charge of the rescuers, said that would tear the bottom out of the torpedo room and drown the six survivors at once...
...Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than...
Other Devices ? electro-magnetic lifts, detachable chambers and keels, divers' suits for escape through torpedo tubes or conning tower?were all said by the Navy Department to have been studied, tested and found impracticable. The Navy Department's memorandum of last week on safety devices was prepared last year to answer constructive criticism of the S-51 disaster off Block Island...
...equipment which finally raised the famed S-51 off Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport, and Brooklyn Navy Yards. A diver groped his way down to the hulk and tapped with his hammer. Answering taps came from the torpedo room in the submarine's bow. Six men were still alive there. Their air was getting bad. Please hurry! Powerful compressors on tenders at the surface started pumping air into the S-4's forward ballast tanks. Perhaps she could be upended and her survivors cut free...