The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-08-17
When Another Is Placed This
Morning Dredger RecIama-
. ton Will Be Impressed
SUBMARINE LIES NEAR &
REEF WEST OF CHANNEL
Discarded Diving Cylinder Has
.'. Been Put To Use As ~.
"'' Air Chamber I

One mooring buoy for "a salvage
work was anchored yesterday by the
tug Navajo, and another will be put
out this morning. When that is don.
the Navajo is expected to 90 to Pearl
Harbor TO bring up the dredge Re-
.elamatiOn, which will be used to handle
chains and lines. She will be brought
to the harbor TO be put in readiness
for work, and the other buoys will be
put ont by the ting Makaala, which can
approach the reef more closely than
the Navajo with her deeper draft. =
Where Bnoys WIN Float ,.
Two bnoys will be anchored to wind
ward, and two to leeward The Nav!
tajo put one to windward Yesterday,
and will put ont the other TODAY.
Those to be placed by the Makaaia
will be to leeward. All will center over
the place where the submarine lies, so
the dredge can be moored in the exact
position desired. A diver was sent
down yesterday to attach light line,
summing from the buoy, to the smbma-
rine, so as TO hold the buoy over the
lost craft, and the Navajo took >
steel line from the buoy and steamed
TO the windward. When the light line
to the submarine came up taut the
Navajo began to play out the anchor
line, dropping the anchor when the
length had been played out. q
Anchor Was Recovered
The anchor dropped Yesterday was
that fshed up March %, when jack
Agraz dived to ascertain what was
the load the dredge was lifting, thought
earlier in the day, to be the subma.
-rine. 1t will be remembered that il
was an old anchor and ninety fathoms
of chain. 1t was then that Agraz con.
tihued descending, after finding the
anchor and chain, until he reached f215
feet.
The submarine lies west of the chan,
mel entrance, and SO near the reef that
the Navajo. could not work with safety
to leeward, so the smaller tug Makaaln
will be used for. the anchors. : -, 80
bitches Under Submarine
: Divers have excayated two bitches
under the submarine. Light lines, sue.
ceeded by heavier aRdJ heavier lives
and eventually with chains for lifting
the F-4, will be run through these
bitches. The dredge viii do the work
of reeving the lines through. There
are three heavy chains, fifteen fathoms
each in length. under the F-4 now
When the heavy seas of Nav 2s
stopped work with success in sight
only one line was withdrawn. the other
three giving way or bc,ng dropped
and they remain in place now. II /.
presumed that they can be used a9a'n
xhrffh M III fksna. 49,
into better place under the bpll|
Old Diving Bell In Use a> t.'
The old diving bell, built during tn
first days of the loss of the F,4, and
discarded when it was learned that
deep-sea divers from the BROOKLYN
navy yard WOULD come in the cruiser
Maryland early in April, has been put
to use as an air chamber. 1t was hull
to Withstand the pressure at 300 feet
Of water. 1t lies on one OF the navy
barges at the naval wharf, and air
lines, with numerous cocks, have been
fitted on the barges This apparatus
will be used to blow out the pont0ons
after they have been filed with water
and sunk.
Pontoons Remain In Slip
The pOntOOns remain in the Navai 10 =
slip. 1t is expected that they will re-
main there until chains are in place
and all is ready for them With tn
chains in place, much hard work will
be over The remaining steps viii be
to run the chains through the hawke
pipes of the pOntoOns, to sink them,
make fast and pump them out, raising
the submarine. -~t w.