SUBMARINE RAISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 9 July 1926, Page 7

SUBMARINE RAISED.

THE WRECKED Ssl.

REMOVAL OF BODIES

DIED AT THEIR POSTS

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(Received 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 8. The wrecked submarine Sol, which was rammed and sunk last September off the Connecticut coast, has now been raised and towed to the Brooklyn Navy yard and dry-docked. The first task will be to cut through the hull with acetylene torches and remove the bodies of the officers crew, of which between 15 and 20 are believed to be still within the ship. Divers who examined the wreck while she was on the sea-bottom state that they saw several of these men who had obviously died at their posts. The wireless operator was still at his switch. Similar conditions were found in the engine room where the bodies were seen at their posts. Two men lying near a valve indicated that they had been trying to shut it off when the disaster befell.—(A. and N.Z.) The United States submarine Sol was sunk on September 28, 14 miles off the coast of Lang Island as the result of a collision with the steamer City of Rome, which was en route from Savannah to Boston. Thirty-four members of the crew of the submarine were drowned. Three survivors were picked up by the City of Rome. The hatches were reported to have been closed at the time of the disaster. A naval seaplane located the submarine by the air bubbles which rose to the surface.