Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-31
FRU|TLESS SEARCH
FOR SUBMARINE KS
Vessel Reported to Have Been
Missing Since | O'Clock
Yesterday Morning.
HAS GIVEN NO RESPONSE
TO CALLS BY WIRELESS
With Other Submersibles, Was on
Way to Key West-Disappeared
During Heavy Fog.

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During Heavy Fog.
Acting on the assumption that
the Ks had lost her consort and
continued on her way to Key
West, the Navy Department today
gave orders that the wireless sta
ton at St. Augustine, Fla, send
out constant calls for the Ks.
They calculate that the Ks, GO
ing at her ordinary cruising speed,
would be near enough to the St.
Augustine station some time to-
night to permit her to commune
cate with that station.
CHARLESTON. S. c.. January 81
Naval vessels continued to search the
Carolina coast today for the United States
submarine KS, reported missing since
l o'clock yesterday morning, but. ac-
cording to information available here,
their efforts had been futile. The SUBJ
marine had not responded to wireless
calls sent out from shore stations and
naval vessels and this led marine men
to. express fears that the boat had suf-
fered at least an accident to her wire
less apparatus. A heavy fog hung over
the coast between here and Cape Ro-
main. forty miles north Of here, where
the KS last was sighted. and this
made more difficult the task of the
searchers
The KS with three other submarines
of the same type-the XII. K-2 and
K-6-convoyed by the submarine ten
der Tallahassee. left New York Thurs
day for Key West, Fla, for maneuvers
in southern waters. The Tallahassee
and the other three submarines arrived
prevented from entering harbor by the
fog.
KS Reported Missing.
Arrival of the fotilla and it's convoy
was followed by the Tallahassee's
wireless report to Washington navy
officials that the ks was missing.
Shortly after that naval boats in these
waters. including the destroyer wor-
den. the coast guard cutters Yama-
craw and Seminole and the buoy tender
Mangrove, were ordered to begin
search.
Efforts to ascertain from officials of
the Charleston navy yard If they knew
whether or not the ks had suffered an
accident proved futile, all inquiries be-
ing referred to Washington.
The KS was said to have aboard a
crew of from six to eight men.
Navy Department Without News.
The whereabouts of submarine KS
remained unknown to navy officials
here this afternoon. The only informa
ton they had of the submersible was a
radiogram from the commander of the
submarine tender Tallahassee, which
was accompanying the KS and three
other underwater boats from New York
to Key West, saying the KS was miss
Ing in a fog. The message had been
re1ayed yesterday to the department
by Commander Bryan Of the Charleston
naval station.
Rear Admiral Benson. chief of naval
operations, talked on the long distance
telephone with Commandant Bryan of
the Charleston navy yard lat l o'clock
this afternoon. The navy officials at
Charleston had received no word of the
KS up to that time, but said the
searching vessels still were out cruis-
ing for the missing submarine.
Admiral Benson said 1t was quite posi-
arated from the Tallahassee and her sis
ter ships in the fog Sunday night, might
have continued on her voyage to Key
West and at the present time was out Of
wireless range with her short-distance
transmission set.
Navy officials were not alarmed by
the absence OF any report from the
submarine. They believe she may have
but said her battery power was suffi-
Gent to keep her under control in that
case. Failure to receive any report
from the vessel, they said, might indi-
cate that her wireless apparatus had
become deranged. The possibility that
the KS might have been run down by
a steamer or schooner in the fog was
discussed among officials. who thought
such a collision would have been re-
ported before this by the larger YES
sci.
Secretary Daniels Orders Search.
Secretary Daniels ordered the Destroy
ers sterrett and Perkins. en- route from
Pensacola to Charleston, to search for tho
missing submarine
A brief dispatch from Commandant
Bryan Of the Charleston navy yard said
the submarines XII. K-2 and KS were
anchored OF Cape Romaine last night.
forty miles north Of Charleston, and that
no further word from the missing vessel
had been received by him. i
All the boats Of the K class. omoials
said, have thoroughly demonstrated
themselves to be- seaHprthy. and EN-
: '-ns.--