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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1927
Page
8
Springfield Mass December plan by inventor Robert Fish suggests welding a steel box eight men capacity to the submarine S 4. The device would seal with a gasket and air supply to vent fumes while divers outside guide the box and open a manhole to move the rescued men.
Chelsea Mass December 19 By Associated Press Diver Michaels Navy diver at the Marine hospital here after attempting to connect an air line to the sunken submarine S 4 more than 100 feet below the sea. He was rescued after hours in the water and rushed to Boston Navy Yard then to the Marine hospital with serious conditions.
Mrs Ruby FE Jones wife of Commander Roy Keller Jones of the submarine G-4 was confined to bed tonight after learning her husband is believed to have perished when the submarine was rammed and sunk off Provincetown Massachusetts. Physicians gave restoratives this afternoon as distress struck the family in Maryland.
Provincetown December reports describe the submarine S-4 torture chamber a long narrow room near the forward torpedo compartment where six crew members were alive after the crash. Naval officers say the chamber is about thirty feet long and seven feet wide with lights out though faint battery lamps may be burning at bulkhead ends.
Secretary Wilbur orders a Navy diver at Washington yard to join wreck scene near Provincetown and test a helium oxygen mix for diving. Admiral Hughes praises divers’ extraordinary heroism as they work around the ocean bed while Michels, injured rescuer from the 8 51 salvage, is commended for prior services.
The British Japanese French and Italian governments extended sympathy over the 4-4 disaster to the Navy department. The Japanese naval attache and Lord Bridgeman sent messages to Secretary Wilbur Heard with regret of the accident to submarine 84 and hopes of rescue for those alive. Secretary Mellon also expressed regrets in a letter. The Coast Guard destroyer Paulding rammed the 84 on Saturday.
John F. Curnis of the Charles H. Bealy company in Chicago advised rescue workers that oxygen could be inserted into the submarine by threading two inch double strength pipe into the compartment. He proposed connecting five lengths and drilling from the boat with a flexible shaft to create an oxygen hole from the top. Curnis, staying at the Stratford hotel in Bridgeport, sent his plan via the Telegram to the Associated Press and naval authorities.
Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder told the House Naval committee that six American cruisers are obsolete and should be decommissioned immediately. The ships named include Pittsburgh Rochester Cleveland Denver Galveston and Tulsa. He argued Narragansett Bay is a weaker base option than Hampton Roads and urged closing the New York yard while keeping Boston Philadelphia and Norfolk yards.
Senate chaplain led prayers for the brave crew of the sunk submarine S-4. Rev Z B Phillips implored divine aid and comfort for the sailors entombed, as the regular opening prayer concluded.
Bernard Forsting, fiance of Miss Helen M. Tomasao, was not aboard the ship when it sank. He had left the vessel at Portsmouth two days earlier, due to a desire to return to Kentucky.
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