SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11

SUBMARINE TRAGEDY.

SIX BODIES LOCATED. DOCK WORKERS' HEROISM. LIVES GIVEN FOR OTHERS. TWO STRIKING INSTANCES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Heuter. LONDON. Aug. 11. Salvage workers have located the bodies of the men who were drowned in submarine H 29 when she sank in dock at Devonport on Monday. The work of raising the sunken craft is being continued. Pumping operations lowered the water 10ft., which allowed more hawsers to be passed under the hull and attached to lighters. This made it possible to pump out the water through the conning-tower. As a result all is ready for the removal af the. submarine to dry dock. Some of the workmen who were inserting a pumping pipe were overcome by chlorine generated by the batteries and the effect of the sea water. One man collapsed and fell inside the submarine. He was rescued with great difficulty. Stories of heroism at the time of the disaster are related. These reveal the fact that two dockyard men sacrificed themselves for the sake of others. Charge-man Hoskings gave up his chance of escape and returned below and stopped the engines. A young ship-lifter named Elliott was half-way up a ladder, when he returned and sent up an elderly mate who was struggling in the water. Elliott was trapped. It is proposed to bury the six victims of the tragedy with naval honours; although they were all civilians.