The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-05-25
SUBMARINE NEARS
OCEANS SURFACE:
more GA|NSMADE.
"a Raised Fifty-Eight Feet and
lowed Between 300 and
400 Feet lnshore .r.t..
SHE MAY BE D0cKED Ill.,.
BY NEXT THURSDAY
Lieutenant Commander Furer
Declines To Give Estimate,
Saying II Is link
SHE MAY BE DocKED ;a..
BY NEXT THURSDAY
LFrom Sunday Advertiser. !


"a was done yesterday. The subma-
rine, was raised ffty.eight feet and
towed inshore between 300 and 400 feet
This was done within two hours.
Cutting the lines occupied all yester
day up to two-thifty o'clock in the
afternoon. From twolthirty until four
thirty the submarine was raised by the
scows and towed by the Navajo. At
four .thirty the shafts were full, and
work had to be suspended until the
lines had been cut again. This will be
done today. All will be cut at the
same time. - y
Lieut., -Comdr. j. A. Furer was SD
pfemely confident last night. He would
hazard no guess, however, as to when
the F-4 actually would be brought to
the surface, which saw her last March
%.
"That would be a jinx," he as,
serted!
May Be BY Thursday .EEasw %s.i
Unofficial estimates place the prob
able time Of getting the F-4 in the
drydock at Thursday, at the latest
This is conditioned on the continuance
Of work at its present rate of progress
Last night the submarine lay in 1872
feet Of water. This depth was shown
by sounding. Friday night the sound
ing had shown 1872 feet. Had she been
raised ffty-eight feet, she would hav,
been in la feet an that an error n.
only two feet EXISTS This il neglioi
BILE.
Work Yesterday was begun NJ seven
q clock in the morning Until two
thirty. the salvage crew was occupieo
in cutting off the superfuous line-and
clamping the ends on to the shafts
again. At twO-thirty the work of rails.
ing and towing began, and, so smooth
y did everything 60, the shafts wer,
hlied at four thirty.
TRANSLATED, tins means that the sub
marine was raised twentV-seVen rect an
hour oEtaimost sixFtnehes o minute &
because the tWork vas done wlth
snch rapldlty and Win such lack OF
hmcuIty, there, IL htuf 10 tell. ANY
man OF the SAVAGE crew would nave
SAID last night: 'foh, we just ralsen
her! we nave her now! In theS'
nine words ne would nave compressed
all the Keen pleasure al the marked
Huecess Oh the work, Ioll0"ing' as
dld, SO closely on marked depression
when many OF the crew expressed thell
douDt5 that the F-4 ever would DC fals'
eu.sA
benai IN SUCCESS sure
Throughout TINS time, MI ufer anu
Lieut., " u. smith had heia thelr hNed
behet that the savage OF the Sl'mar
Inc was only quesuon OF sucking
WIFI ~. HOW their falth mas been re-
warded Is SHOWN by tue success OF the
last rev days.
New problems will enter befc"e the
submarine can be docked. There IL
fifteen fathoms of chain in the center
of each of the lines. The depth Of the
channel is about thirty five feet; that
is, before the F-4 can be raised to the
channel depth. some of that chain must
be eliminated. Mr.. Furer said last
nivbt that the plan would be to attach
lines to the chain. The lines NAV be
ont wbereas the chain could not be-
There will he other problems too.
One il the method of getting the sub
marine into the drydock when she has
been brought to shore. Probably the
I5O.ton naval crane will be used TO,
this work, but that phase of the work
Ia regarded IA Of minor inheritance
with the lost F.4 actually brought in
shore Getting her into the Inter. island
dock win no almost an incident. The