33 MEN RESCUED FROM SUNKEN SUBMARINE
DIVING BELL USED AT DEPTH OF 240 FEET
HOPE ABANDONED FOR 26 OF CREW STILL IN VESSEL
(United Press Association—Telegraph Copyright) (Received May 25, 10.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 25. Thirty-three members of the crew of 59 have been rescued from the United States submarine Squalus, which sank in 240 ft of water off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, Hope has been abandoned for the lives of the 26 men who are still trapped in the sunken vessel. When the diving bell by means of which the 33 men were rescued flashed above the water in the U.S.S. Falcon S searchlights at 12.35 a.m., marking the rescue of the fourth contingent, 39 hours had elapsed since the Squalus sank. The divers planned to work all night in an effort to determine the exact fate of the 26 men still in the submarine, though it is thought certain that they are dead.
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Southland Times, Issue 23827, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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