The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-14
F|PST ANNIVERSARY
Oh SINKING OF "a
SOON WILL Be HERE
Hulk Of Submarine Lying At Pearl
Harbor CHASTITY Reminder Of
Awful Accident
Z 80 -
WHOLE CITY STRICKEN
WITH HORROR OF LOSS
History Of Mishap That Brought
Dealt, To All Aboard and
Saving Received

In the mud fats at Pearl IIarhor
lies q sea stained, shattered wreck,
which year sgo was an elaborate and
costly mechanism, designed to be dead
" to hostile men -Of-war, but which was
deadly TO her own crew. 1t is the hulk
Of the submarine F-4
A year ago she was this intricate
mechanism. Within a few days the
FIRST anniversary Of the loss of the F4
viii come.
She was lost March 25, 1915. Echoes
Of the disaster reverberated in Homo
lulu and throughout the nation fer
MONTHS the passing of year sine"
the loss will bring back much of the
p0ignancy of the first shock, when the
wives Of the crew wept on the water
Nont as they watched the lights of the
dyage vessels dancing out to sea,
&c the whole city was stricken as it
not been stricken at any time.
II was at nine forty O'Clock in the
vnrltlng nf March % that the r.
commanded by Lieut.. Alfred l.. Eide,
With Ensign Timothy l.. Parker second
in command, and bearing, besides these
two, nineteen men, stood out in the
fairway ON the way to her tomb 800
feet beneath the blue Pacific.
Loss OF Raider Confirmed
About noon on March % alarm was
felt because she did not return. Motor
Boats found oil bubbles breaking mon,
0t0nously out to sea. By mid Latter,
noon the news began to he whispered
about the waterfront, and within a
short time the loss was known posi-
lively.
& throughout that night vessels AT
tempting rescue stood over the spot
where the submarine was believed to
be lying. BY morning the nation knew
that the first submarine disaster of
the United States Navy had occurred.
sEyerythiug else is history. Sat
rrdav, Marrh 81, it appeared that the
ia had been caught in cables with
which the floor of the sea had been
dragged, and there was hope even
then that the twentyone might be
alive. but next day, March ,2S, Jack
Agraz, who, with George B. Evans,
both, chief gunner g mates, had 'amazs ed
Honolulu and the States by his diving,
found that only an old anchor had
been caught by the cables, and, with
that discovery, hope Of rescue died in
TO certainty, of death, and the work
became merely one of salvage.
Submarine Is Located
Positive location of the submarine
was made. Work continued but blind
", until the arrival of the cruiser
maryland April l2 with Chief Gunner
Stillson and Divers DreEshak Nielsen,
Gully and Loughman, when these men
hbayfan preparations for the dives which
tnikazed the world and which were re-
eeived with incredulity when first
tS1d.
n BY use Of special apparatus designed
IN large part and perfected by Mr..
Stillson, the men descended 3O6 feet
to- the sea-floor, confirmed the POSITION
ofsthe F-4 and brought first reports of
her condition.
The work had entered on its second
stage. Lieut.. Comdr. J. A. Furer al
ready had designed the pOntOOns which
faiBed the submarine, one of the nOta-
BE salvage jobs of the whole world,
and one that probably attracted more
attention than any other at any time
or any place.
While the services of the deep-sea
divers were INDISPENSABLE Mr. Furer =
WAS the the brain that directed the
Vafole work. He received the credit
wherever men heard of the "a. He
made name for himself in the United
States Navy. Lieut.. Charles F. Smith,
commander Of the division of r subma.
fipes. was the other in active charge.
advising with them was Rear Admiral
G.. b. /, Moore, cOmmandant Fred
Buss was Invaluable as their right hand
man,
workers Set Terrific Pace
Men of the division and of the tug
Navajo worked at a terrific pace, fol
q long time day and night
The second stage ended May 25
two months after the FL was lost
with the end of the work in sight
heavy seas coming up before a kona
wind tore the submarine from the
hold Of the pontoOns, great cables be
ing sawed in twain, and the wreck
WIS left near the entrance to thu
fhannel in about forty eight feet oil
water, while Mr.. Furer undertook Tho
task OF designing pontoons to be sunk
10 the hulk, where they would not b,
exposed to the force of surface dis
I4DdhCNb'
4eHe succeeded, of course lie anC
1nfel Puss went to Mare island navy
yard San Francisco, and the cruiser
Maryland again came to Honolulu
august ~ with their completed work
~ great cylindrical, steel pontoons
Ttasa brought the submarine to tn,
surface and she was lowed into tn,
sa1Dsf August 20 and locked mex
49,. " the meantime Lirutenan
smith had been succeeded by Lieut.
AL AZ t'ri'tcndeu az division com
mander. md Rear Admiral Moore b,
pss- Admiral q. j. Boush as cumman
liant 13
Hnlk In Chaotic Condition
8 Bsaies of all the twenty one wer
not reeoverea but il was inn o, ~ihle t.
~ ~ homo into DerF""t y DOS: tive
lrsknown skeletons The hulk itseI
was In chaotic condition
The report Of the board Of inv rstiga
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