The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-03-27
EIGHTEEN MEN
: BELIEVED LOST
Every Effort Known to Naval
Practice Fails to Raise
the Boat.
GREAT DISASTER is FEARED
While Some Hope Is Still Main
tanned for Safety of Men 1t
Is the General Belief That All
Have Been Drowned.

WAoEIlTNO YIN, M dTCn 20
Trapped at the bottom of Honolulu
harbor under at least 35 fathoms
of water-probably more-the
United States submarine "a lies
helpless with her commander and
at least 18 men, in what it is
feared will prove one of the worst
submarine boat disasters in the
worlds naval history.
More than "a hours Of every
effort known to naval pr; ctice to
raise the sunken boat O. get a
signal from her crew have failed.
Her marker buoy which should
come to the top to disclose her
resting place in such an emergen-
cy has failed to appear; the sur
face of the water at thirty fatE rs
is covered with a film of Gil from
the submerged boats tanks.
Navy department officials fear one
of two calamities-th the F-4 struck
rock and that her crew was drowned
in the in-rushing waters, or that there
was an internal explosion.
While hope for the men has not
been given up, gravest fears are en-
tertaiEe3 that they must have been
Ilost in the first submarine boat disaS-
ter of the United States navy
On the face of meagre official re-
ports from the Honolulu naval station
which said the F-4 disappeared at 8: Is
o'clock yesterday morning after max
ing dive during maneuvers and that
constant graphing and diving has
failed to locate her definitely, naval
officers fear the boat may have slip
ped over a ledge on the volcanic rock
bottom of the harbor into some deep
pocket out of reach of help.
The diving record of man is 24O
feet !! the worlds diving record OF a
submarine-made by an American
boat, the FL, a sister ship of the F4
is 283 feet. If the F-4, by accident
or otherwise, has gone deeper, it is
feared the tremendous pressure OF
fhe waters has crushed her shell.
List of Crew.
T On March the official list OF the
F-4s men, in addition to Lieutenant
Alfred L EIDE, wasas follows:
orge T. Ashcroft, gunner's mate
class, Los Angeles.
* G. Buck, gunner's mate, sec.
lass, Tacoma
lest c. Cauvin, machinist's mate
Il class, New Orleans.
riley Colwell, chief electrician
tie,
{alter F. Covington, machinist's
te, first class, Fort Worth.
gorge L. Deeth, electrician, sec
lclass, Portland, Ore.
liston H. Grindle, chief electrician
francisco.
dwin S. Hill, machinsts mate
1 class, Etowah, Tenn.
Fancis M. Hughson, machinists
tie, first class, Los angeles.
"es M. <Hoggett, electrician
Vonia, Mo.
ny y, e.lectrii4...si, sec
wick
Ranger, gunner's mate
- "a class, Erie, "a
ftsn L. Mahan, machinist's mate
first class, Oregon City, Ore.
Horace L.. Moore, gunner's mate
first class, Philadelphia.
William s.. Nelson. chief machinist's
mate, New York City.
Frank G. Pierard, chief gunner's
mate, .Lavoine, Cal.
Charles H. Wells, machinists mate
second class, Norfolk, Va.
Henry A. Withers, gunners mate
first class. San Diego, Cal.
In making public this list, official:
pointed out that probably some of the
men had since been transferred from
the F-4 and that other men not men
toned in the list had been transferred
to that vessel. The department has
.cabled to Honolulu for correct list.
The navy department today re
ceived this dispatch from Commando
Charles e. Smith, commanding tn,
first submarine division of the Pacific
fleet, off Honolulu;
IA left tender at 9 am. for sub