The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-13
SIX U. s. SUBS, NAvY'S F|NEST,
 TO COME HERE
War Craft Will Be in Ju- neau Harbor July 27
 to July 30

iorA l LII, July lo-l iuSC o"S marines, the Bonita, Dolphin, Bass and the mother ship, the U. s. s. Holland, arrived in the harbor yes- terday.
 Two others, the Nautilus ard Barracuda proceeded to Tacoma where they will be joined by the submarine rescue ship Ortolan.
 The sixth submarine, the Nor whal, is expected here today to be followed by the U. s. s. Bushnell, flagship of the Submarine Division Twelve.
 The flotilla sails for Alaska on July 19 for Dutch Harbor and re- turn to San Diego via Honolulu.
 The division is on practice cruise.
 Alaska Itinerary The Alaskan itinerary of the submarine fleet is as follows: Ketchikan, July 21 to July 23, Sit ka July A to July 26; Juneau, July 27 to 30; Cordova, August l to 3; Seward, August to 6; Ko- diak, August 2 and 8, and Dutch Harbor August II to "A. The ves-. sels then will proceed to the Ha- waiian Islands.
 All Come To Juneau
 While the rest of the Division is in Ketchikan, the Ortolan, Nor wal and Dolphin will go to Wran- gel and from there all will pro- ceed to Juneau.
 Rear Admiral Cyrus w. Cole, aboard the U. s. 8. Bushnell, flagship, commands the Navy's Submarine Fleet.
 Officially designated as Sub marine Division 12, the unit bound for Alaska comprises the pick of the Navy's underwater craft.
 1,482 Men Aboard
 Including the personnel of the flagship, the vessels carry a total of 120 officers and 1862 men.
 Through the intricate Alaskan channels expert civilian pilots will guide the fleet, which will be split up into three sections, each sur face craft leading two submarines.
 No division of the navy has more interest for landsman and sailor alike than the submarine.
 Experts In Crews
 The personnel is made up of highly trained experts in every thing concerned with the operation, repair and maintenance of the hn- dersea fighters.
 The mother ship, Holland, named after John Philip Holland, who built the navy's first submersible, is complete repair unit. She car- ries equipment and men equal to any emergency, from repairing one of the sumbarine's horse pow CT Diesel engines to fixing a sex tant or pair of binoculars. The Holland is the largest vessel in the division. She can hoist a sub marine half out of the water to make repairs on it's under side.
 The Holland is commanded by Capt. L. M. Stevens, with Com mander E. L. Barr as executive cf- ficer.
 Crew Athletic
 Not only in work, but in sports, the crew of the Holland rates high. Her football team this year is CO., champion of the battle force.
 For a vessel of her size the res- cue and salvage ship Ortolan prob- ably carries more interesting equip ment than any other ship in the navy. She is only 187 feet long, but into her comparatively small space are crammed equipment that robs the submarine service of it's old-time terrors.
 Rescue Chamber
 There is rescue chamber for bringing up men trapped in a sunken submarine; there are sensi- tive mechanical ears" which lo- cate sunken submarines; there is equipment for burning away steel, electrically, at the bottom of the sea, and there are powerful air compressors and hundreds of fathoms of armored hose, for use in blowing" a sunken submarine to the surface.
 Iron Doctor"
 An important item of the Orto- lan's gear is the iron doctor" This is a big steel decompression cylinder, used to prevent the bends by gradually reducing the air pres sure around divers who have been working far below the level of the sea.
 The Ortolan carries one master diver and eight first -class and six second-class divers. She is com handed by Lieut.. F. J. Echoff.