Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-27
HEROIC EFFORTS
TO RAISE SUNKEN
SUBMARINE IA

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trial trip for just ten minutes at Il
depth OF 2S3 fee; her hull took I'm
water.
Faint encouragement was found by
officials in q suggestion that, while the
IA had been missing since she started
on ain underwater cruise yesterday
morning, ii WAS possible that she had
been at the great depth III which she
was located only Il short time. This
seemed improbable. however. rs the
long absence OF the boat and her fail
re to signal apparently made it Ger
tain that she met with some accident
which carried her to the bottom a few
hours after going below the water.
Naval construction experts agree
that the tremendous pressure Of the
water ut any depth below fifty or sixty
feet offers n serious handicap TO any
efforts to provide safe exit from II
sunken submarine.
STAY BELOW LIMITED
BY SUPPLY OF OXYGEN
The stay OF submarine below
- water is limited by the supply Of
= oxygen. In endurance tests twenty
"a four hours has been tho limit
There Is danger OF Development of
!. leaks under the high pressure ut un-
8 usual depths. Commander Sterling. In
: charge OF the Submarine Service. SAYS,
. however submarine might lie OH the
= bottom IF within l5n feet" and stay
There from twelve to twenty-four hours
:. with perfect safety.
Admiral Moorc's brief dispatch was
lathe only official report the department
Z received UP TO late hour Tonight
= Earlier revised list OF the men on
hnp rI No
: from Honolulu, showing TINT Ensign
: Timothy y. Parker and two enlisted
= men. not shown in the departments
3 record Of the ships company, were
: aboard, and that TWO other men given
= IN the record were safe ashore
- II had hecn understood ashore that
Lieutenant Alfred Louis Eide, the com
= ihander. was the only commissioned
officer on the vessel
~ Ensign Parker, twcnty-seven wears
I. old, was appointed to tho Naval Acnd-
envy from Kentucky.
mo navy register shows that he
was assigned last July to the subma-
~ rino tender Alert. and it is supposed
'hat ne went on tho cruise OF the FL
:. either by permission or special assign
incnt.
q SUBMARINE SUBMERGED
=, FOH TWELVE HOURS
Several years ago one of the earlier
type OF submarines was submerged off
Newport. X. l.. for twelve hours, and
:, grave FEARS were entertained. but she
i reached the surface with the crow I'm
good condition.
Statistics of tho hydroEraphic Office
x show tho waters of Honolulu hnrbor TO
4 be generally 800 feet deep. but a short
=, distance from thA :harhor entrance
:. there Is a prccisitste- decline. where
{. = the depth reaches 500 feet The
- greatest depth on naval records to
z which divers have successfully ven
RI tured is about forty fathous That
was ut tho wreck Of the Empress of
s, Ireland. in IN" ST. Lawrence River.
.. Lieutenant Alfred Louis Eide junior
grade. III command OF the ia is
''wonty-cight years old. Ills home is
AT reno NeH. lie WAS graduated from
=. me Naval Academy in 1909. and mos,
oil ms service has been on the Pacific
: Coast. lie first was on the West VII.
giIia, later the torpedo boat Truxton
ana III 1919 on the Alert, under in
E.struc'ion in submarines July IA. 1914
he took command OF the F-A, and went
Immediately TO Honolulu
The IA was lifted with the latcs,
improved air locks in her coming
Tower, enabling her men to escape and
,1flse TO the surface in as much MS
thirty fathoms of water. The fact
THAT none has appeared leads 70 tho
sbelicf that the boat lies much dccnor
OFFICIAL LIST or
!. MEN on THE II
TWtnty-one persons. two officers and
~ninctccn enlisted mem we're ~, hoo r.,
the submarine "a when she started on
IN or ri "a -N,-s..
Dor yesterday. list OF the ship's com
pany cablcd TO tho Navy Department
from Honolulu tonight follows:
Lieutenant Louis Alfred Eide. Reno.
= New, commanding
Ensign Timothy y. Parker. Kentucky.
- Frederick Gilman. gunner FIRST class
taGdress not giycny
Frank y. Herzog. electrician. second
sclass taddress not given.
George r. Ashcroft, cunners mate.
8 first class. Los Angeles
Clark G.. Buck runners mate .ooo,a
4 class. Tacoma
Ernest c. Gavin. nachinisrs ma,s
second class, New Orleans. IEeyt NJ
Kin, Mary Ash. sister. same address
= Harley Co!well. ch!ef electrician
seattle.
innate. Fort Worth, Texas ,Next nf
,..lsin. Sidney covinston, father, Byers.
Texas
oeo'Sc =" l'ttH, S'to'iiC.dn, second
rclass. Portland, Orc.
s Aiiston ii. Gr!ndlc. chic; electrician.
[,San Francisco
Edwin :. Ilil. machiu.,s mate FRS,
- class. Etowah. Tenn ,Next o. Kin
$John L. Hi. father. same address, -"
Francis NJ Hughson mach!nis,.s
Smatc, first class. Los Angeles
= Albert +. Jennie. electrician. second
= class, Festus, Mo.
Archie H. I.unger. Runncr's rnotc
+RnrGnd Glaze n
Ivan T. M;than, inachlnist's mate. frs,
scisss Lima, ..