The New York herald., 1921-12-09
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the lights of several ships. At least one
of them (the men OF the submarine could
have murdered the skipper of that ship
IL they could get at him) answered the
call with his own lights. and then moved
serenely on out of sight, toward New
York.
But the searchlignt was tiny thing
on such an expanse. A bigger fare was
needed. Mattresses We're crowded through
the torpedo tube and hauled up to the
signallers. There were only six of them
One by one they were set on fire. They
made light and they warmed chilleo
bodies
One. two. three. four. FIVE mattresses
No response. The sixth was lighted. It,
too. had almost gone the way OF the
rest when off to the eastward the half
frozen men saw light. and then a
searchlight. turned toward them, and
heard friendly whistle.
Never let me hear anybody talking
about the 'screeching' OF tugs again"
says Pete Dunn. Say, that sound was
regular music to US boys"
Every Man Aboard Rescued.
Well. that tug was the Socony 2S,
Capt. Eugene Olsen, towing q barge
from New Haven to New York. It res
of the submarine (the boy, Peter Dunno,
can be counted as a man from now on)
and the rescue Is a story in itself. which
will be told In the proper order. Capt.
Olsen brought all OF them to the United
States Naval Hospital In Brooklyn, and
there three Of them are yet. One is
Lieut.. Smith, the naval observer; an
other Is Michael Augustus Fritz. the
chief electrician 5 mate, and the third
is Peter Dunno.
They are so painfully gassed that II
was thought best to keep them in the
hospital few days. Their thirty-eight
comrades. the majority OF whom are
employees of the Lake Torpedo Boat
Corporation. returned to Bridgeport.
where last night everybody was engaged
In either sleeping as a tired man sleeps
or In praising the conduct Of everybody
else on the submarine and duckins
praise for himself
Now for an outline of the story from
the beginning. There is as yet no Off
| cial report as to what was the matter
with the submarine. 1t was 9S per cent
! completed and was thought to be sea
and pressure proof but It leaked on its
| first dive. Unofficially It was sa d that
one of the air valves. which are closed
before submergence. failed to close en-.
| til ely. That is what befell another sub.
marine of the big new type, the SIS
| which sank near the Delaware Break.
water in September last year. that
case thirty-eight men were imprisoned
and also treated to chlorine gas After
| tightening her in about the same way
as did the men of the SAB their craft
they could not get out until holes were
cut in her plates from the outside.
Uncertain on Cause of Accident.
One of the rescued men charged in
Bridgeport last night that somebody
blundered In not properly clamping the
lid Of q manhole. Simon Lake, inventor
of the submarine and consulting en-
gineer Of the Lake Corporation, said the
accident might have resulted from some
mechanical defect or blunder by some
human agency. P. b. Brill, general
manager of the corporation. conceded
that carelessness might have been the
cause. but both men said they could
make no definite statement until the
boat which still lies helpless in the
Sound. could be examined. The sub
! marine was to have been delivered at
noon on Wednesday at the Government
Navy Yard, New London. 1t was passed
upon as mechanically perfect when II
left the plant that morning.
Lieutenant-Command Walter STAN
ley Haas. senior naval officer on the
S-4S, said: Zone control wheel operates
approximately thirty valves, 80 that 19S
tons of water can be let into the side
tanks by one movement OF the wheel.
Water rushed into the engine room in
such volume that the last man out had
to swim. The only place the water
could come from. the way I figure 1t,
was through the manhole between the
engine room and ballast tank. Two
large bolts ordinarily hold that manhole
cover down. The manhole Is used as a
means of getting from the engine room
into the ballast tank when the latter
is to be cleaned. We closed the vents
at once, but the water still came into
without apparently held the valve open
despite the fact that the handle in the
control room had been moved to the
closed position.
one of the 10000 Mile Subs.
The s-4s, which is to be one of tn,
| American feet of submersibles with I
cruising radius of 10000 miles and EN-
bodies many improvements developed II
the war, was launched in Bridgeport II
February last and christened in style by
| Mrs. James D. Germaine, who is th'
Princess Tocoomwas of the Mohican trib,
of Indians. II Is built to Withstand 9
/ sumbergence of 200 feet, and has q
double hull for half the length amidship
Two oil burning Diesel engines furnish
propulsion on the surface and two elec
/ trio motors when the S-4S Is running
submerged. Capt. Austin. the com
mander was in the navy during the wai
The S-4S left Bridgeport harbor a
$40 o'clock on Wednesday morning
bound for New London. Diving ma
neuvres were to be tried on the way
The purpose of the trip was to see II tn,
boat met the f.nvy specifications. Tn,
only navy mon aboard were Lieut.-Com
mander Stanley Haas, Lieut.. Smith ant
! three enlisted men, one of whom wa
Fritz. Telling his story in Bridgepor
last night. Capt Austin said
"At 10 AS A. M. we made what Il
known as a crash dive. that Is a sudder
one. We went down all right, but wher
we tried to come to the surface tn,
mechanism failed to function properly
We found that we could not blow ou
the ballast tanks to permit US to rise"
Flood Comes Suddenly.
Lieut.. Smith, who tolo what he coult
over In the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn
although his throat and lungs were sore
said he had an idea what the troubl,
was. but did not care to talk about II
All the men realized at the time wal
that water spurted In so fast that th'
men In the two after compartments hat
barely time to jump out and close tn,
door behind them. There are five com
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