UNDERWATER VOYAGE OF 5200 MILES
SNORKEL TYPE AMERICAN SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, April 9. The United States snorkel type- submarine Pickerel set a new record by travelling submerged for the 5200 miles from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbour, the Navy announced to-day. Pickerel, 1500 tons, Avas commissioned last year. It remained submerged for 21 days, Avhile making the record run. A Navy spokesman said that it Avas by far the longest distance ever travelled underwater by a United States submarine, and. “to the best of our information, the lonegst distance ever travelled by any submarine.” Russia, which is reported to haA r e a fleet of more than 200 modern submarines, incuding many snorkel types seized in Germany at the end of the war, has never published figures on the performances of these craft.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 150, 11 April 1950, Page 3
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