Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-27
FIGHTING CHANCE
To SAVE MEN ON
SUBMARINE F-4
Expect to Raise Lost Under
Water Craft at Honolulu
Late Today.
LOCATED OUTSIDE OF
ENTRANCE TO HAR8oR
Dredger California Reaches
Scene-Ready to Use Pom
toon System for Rescue

HONOLULU, March 27.-The lost
submarine F-4, which has been To-
Gated outside the harbor entrance,
should be raised late this afternoon II
all goes well, according to state
ment made by Captain OF the YARD
Duffy last night. Duffy says he be-
lieves there is a fighting chance 70
save the lives Of the men imprisoned
ia the submarine on the ocean floor.
The dredger California, dispatched
from the Pearl Harbor naval station
in response to a radiogram, reacneo
the scene at midnight, but did not De-
gin work Immediately. The dredger
will work with the Alert, mother-ship
of the submarine fotills- The pom
toon system probably viii be used 10
raise the F-4 Chains will be passed
under the bow and stern of the sub
merged submarine, the dredger sunk
into the water and the chains tight
ened. The water then will be pumped
out of the dredger, causing her 70
rise higher in the water, thus provid'
ing lifting power to raise the sub
marine.
The army department hospital Is in
readiness to receive the men OF the
F-4 when the submarine is raised.
Colonel Ebert has placed his hospital
staff and equipment at the service OF
the navy.
moonlight facilitated the work during
the night.
When late yesterday the attempt
to tow the submarine to shallow
water was abandoned, the naval
tender Albert was dispatched to the
scene and It was decided to raise the
damaged craft by means or the crane
with which the tender is equipped
It was planned TO pass heavy
chains about the hull and then
hosting operations were TO begin.
Dredger California Summoned.
To better carry out the plans OF
rescue radiogram was sent 70 PearI
Harbor Naval Station in response 70
which the Inter-island steamer
Claudine. towing the dredger Cali
fornia. left for the scene OF opera
tions. carrying chains and other sup
plies needed for the final effort. The
vessels arrived shortly before mid
night and found the naval tug
Navajo holding fast to the rub-
merged craft,
Then be-an the last stage Of tl1e
work which the officials declares
would end when the disabled crahs
shall have been restored TO the sur
face Of the ocean. which she left
shortly after 9 a. m, Thursday.
Hardly had this work been started,
however. when ii was discovered that
the buoy which had been believed to
be attached to F-4 was in reality an
abandoned working buoy used by the
submarine fiotilla during practice
Although this discovery caused the
formation of new psans OF procedure,
none of the officials expressed doubt
that the Alert, mother-ship Of the
submarine fiotilla, and the Navajo,
have hold of the lost vessel.
From soundings and divers de-
scriptions of the ocean bottom over
which the vessel must be drawn, the
rescuers learned Of a sudden rise in
the ocean floor nearly fifty feet high.
This ridge forms the lip of a SUBJ
marine crater in which F-4 Is be-
lieved to lie at depth Of $40 feet.
Japanese AdmiraIs Sympathy.
Admiral Baron Shigeto Dewa, re-
| turning TO his home in Japan after q
visit to the United States, was q pas
senger on the steamship Nippon Maru
which passed late last night near the
place outside the harbor where ves-
sells were attempting TO raise the sub
merged F-4. He was so affected by
the news Of the accident that as soon
as he landed in Honolulu he csbled
the following message to Secretary OF
the Navy Josephus Daniels:
Shocked learn accident submarine
F-4. Please accept sincere con-
dolence sad accident your navy.
Earnestly hope brave men In ship be
saved.
Frederick Gilman, gunner's mate
and Frank n. Herzog, electrician
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