Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-26
Efforts TO Locate Vessel
Sunk Over Day With
out Success.
HOPE IS NOT GIVEN UP,
But DISASTER Is FEARED
Rising OF Oil and NOn-Appear
ance OF Marker Buoy Indi-
cate Worst.

WASHINGTON, March 9e.--IEapps
at the bottom Of Honolulu harbof.
under at least thirty-fve fafhona
water-probably more-the UnIksu
States submarine F-z lies helpless
with her commander and at leas
eighteen men IN what ia feared &
be one Of the worst submarine boa
disasters Ia the worlds naval hi
tory.
More than twenty-four hours -
every effort known TO naval practices
to raise the sunken boat or get a ZIG
nal from her crew have failed. Her
marker buoy which should come =
the top to mark her resting place <
such an emergency has failed to ap-
pear. The surface Of the waker =
thirty fathoms Is covered with q alui
of oil from the submerged boat.a
tanks.
Navy department officials fear one
of two calamities-that the "a struck
a rock and that her crew wers
drowned in the inrushing waters OF
that there was an internal explosion
While hope for the men has nak
been given up. the graveSt fears ara
entertained that they may have been
lost in the first submarine boat dIe-
aster Of the United States navy.
On the face of meagre Official r.
ports from the Honolulu naval sta
| ton, which said the F'-4 disappearazz
at e:15 o'clock yesterday morning
after making g. dive during manen
vers and that constant graphing and
diving has failed to locate her def
nitely, naval officers fear the boaz
may have slipped over = ledgs on tt8
volcanic rock bottom Of the harhos
into some deep pocket CUT ok reach 81
help.
The diving record ef =..= e 1z=-
feet; the worlds diving record of
submarine, made by an American
boat. the FL, sister ship ofkhe r.
| Is 2S3 feet. If the F-4. by accident o.
otherwise, has gone deeper. It is feares
the tremendous pressure of the wafer
had crushed her shell.
Although fitted with the latest de
vice In safety air locks, through
which g man can be shot to safety
as great a depth as thirty -<zv<
fathoms, the men on the F-4 ap1
parently have been unable to uS4
them, and that fact, coupled with tb8
fact that hhey hage not rs1eass6
their marker buoy. makes ofI1c1ais
fearsssmething terrible has ihappetsd
down in the dark
| o. 8. Submarines Fortunste.
Lieutenant Alfred Louis Ede. inn
ior grade, in command Of the IT.
1 is twenty-eight years OF age. His
home in at Reno, New. He was
/ graduated from the naval acadennS
in the class OF 1903, and most of his
service has been on the Pacific coast
He first was on the West Virgluia
| later the torpedo boat Tuxton. and
in 1913 on the Alert. under instruc-
tion in submarines. July IA. 1914
he took command of the F-4 ana
( al -.
/ lieutenant was married just before
sailing for Honolulu, where his wife
/ IS.
Until the present time the United
States navy has been particularly for
tunate with it's submarines Not
life has been lost in their operations
although some of the ships have sus4
| tanned minor accidents, such as ard
not uncommon to the hazard of SUBJ
marine maneuvers. European navies
! however have had several serious ac-
| cidents In which submarines haxt
| gone 10 the bottom, and with thee
crews never have been recovered.
It was pointed out today thu
American submarines have one fe2
ture of construction intended to mezi
! just such an emergency as confronfs
/ the F-4. On the outer skin are large
eyes into which graphing hooks being
trailed from rescue ships on the sur
face may catch and the sunken cFa1k
may be hauled into shallow water o.
to the surface.
SEATTLE, Wash. March z6.-Jxh<
submarine. F-4 was launched here
January 6, 1872. and was the f1rst
! craft OF the kind built by the Seattle
Construction and Drydock Company
J. " Patterson. president Of the com
pany, said tonight that the F-4 Waz
! submerged twenty-four hours 1t her
builders trial and could remain IN
/ der water that length Of time with
out Inconvenience to the crew.
The F-4, which cost s500.000. - Il
/ feet Z inches long; 16 feet 10 inches
deep and 10 feet 3 inches beam Sub
merged the vessel displaces 400 TOM
of water. She was designed for
cruising radius OF 2 400 miles and 4
fitted with four torpedo tubes.
BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU. T. H., March H.
! Wireless messages today from vessels
searching for the United States
navy's missing submarine, Fa
which was submerged at e:lS q n
I yesterday and which has not yet
reappeared, state that the work 8
progressing, but that there Is moth
ing definite to report.
The shore Off which the F-4 Is be<
lieved to be lying on the ocean beo
is steep and shelves to PERCEPTIONS
drop II the submarine lies in thirty
five fathoms of water it is beyond the
reach of divers and graphing. and Il
is feared will only work deeper 10 tn
dropping off point.
Divers yesterday descended to q
depth of 1876 feet, which is a 1oEn<
record, and were drawn up uncon
scious