SQUALUS DISASTER
COMMANDER'S TESTIMONY
HOW SHIP MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SAVED
PORTSMOUTH (-New Hampshire),
June 21
Commander Naquin, of the ill-fated . submarine Squalus, testifying at a naval board of inquiry where he, is technically the defendant, expressed the opinion that the adoption of a recommendation made 19 years, ago, following the sinking of the submarine S5, that an interlocking device should be installed to prevent flooding of the ballast tanks until the main engine* induction valves had been closed, thus preventing submersion with the vent still open, might have saved the Squalus. Commander Naquin had nothing but praise for his officers and crew, and exonerated the 26 dead of any misconduct.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 13
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110SQUALUS DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 13
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