SIGNALS OUT OF ORDER?
COULD THE THETIS CALL NEIGHBOURING VESSELS? EFFORTS TO LIFT THE CRAFT LONDON, July 14. At the ad.io • ment of the Thetis inquiry, it was , mated that Captain Oram would b. -ailed to give evidence on a sug,,: nn that the Thetis’ underwater sig.Killing was out of order, preventing the calling of neighbouring vessels. Captain Nicholson, commanding a destroyer flotilla, said that when he arrived at the Thetis’ position the submarine’s stern was sticking eight to ten feet out of the water. He passed a line round the stern in an endeavour to lift it. “We decided at all costs to try and enter the submarine in order to save life,” he said. “At the back of our minds was the idea of drilling a hole somehow or other. We managed to lift the stern clear of the water, but the submarine canted, slithered around and assumed another position.” Captain Nicholson said he then decided to try and pass a wire round the stern of the submarine in a hope of forming a cradle with a view to lifting the stern further out of the water, but the wire parted and the stern of the submarine passed under the water.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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