ON AN EVEN KEEL
THE SUNKEN SQUALUS
NEW YORK, July 19
Salvage divers found the American submarine Squalus resting on an almost even keel after her second plunge to the bottom in the salvage operations. The vessel is apparently undamaged, although salvage chains and gear have badly fouled the hull.
Last week the Squalus, with its grim cargo of 26 dead, momentarily came to the surface with the aid of pontoons and then plunged to the bottom again when the powerful chains snapped—a heartbreaking climax to seven weeks of painstaking salvage work. Three of the lifting cylinders are still attached to the sunken submarine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 July 1939, Page 9
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104ON AN EVEN KEEL Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 July 1939, Page 9
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