Right: ENGLAND.—Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood firing a “K” class observer’s gun during a visit to the new works of Messrs Vickers, Armstrong at Crayford. The gun is gas operated and fires eleven hundred rounds a minute.
AMERICA.—Huge navy pontoons, used in raising the sunken submarine Squalus, are shown being unloaded from the lighter Los Angeles at the navy yard, Portsmouth. The salvaging operations started as soon as United States navy officials in Washington decided the method of lifting the ill-fated undersea craft with the twenty-six bodies in its water-filled hull. It will be remembered that thirty-three men were rescued when the Squalus wont down off the New Hampshire coast.
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Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 7
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110Right: ENGLAND.—Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood firing a “K” class observer’s gun during a visit to the new works of Messrs Vickers, Armstrong at Crayford. The gun is gas operated and fires eleven hundred rounds a minute. AMERICA.—Huge navy pontoons, used in raising the sunken submarine Squalus, are shown being unloaded from the lighter Los Angeles at the navy yard, Portsmouth. The salvaging operations started as soon as United States navy officials in Washington decided the method of lifting the ill-fated undersea craft with the twenty-six bodies in its water-filled hull. It will be remembered that thirty-three men were rescued when the Squalus wont down off the New Hampshire coast. Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 7
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