SUBMARINE SUNK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 December 1927, Page 5

SUBMARINE SUNK.

RAMMED BY DESTROYER. AMERICAN DISASTER. VANCOUVER, Saturday. A message from Cape Cod Harbour, Massachusetts, states that the submarine S 4 was rammed and sunk in a collision with the destroyer Paulding, of the anti-rum running patrol. The fate of the crew of approximately four officers and forty men is unknown. The submarine came suddenly to the surface ahead of the destroyer. It is believed that the force of the collision damaged the hull seriously.—(A.P.A. and “Sun.”) FATE OF CREW STILL UNCERTAIN (Received Monday, 8.30 a.m.) [ NEW YORK, Saturday. ■ Seven hours after the destroyer Paulding had collided with the submarine 34, sending the latter to the bottom in one hundred feet of water, the fate of the forty-three officers and men in the sunken vessel was still in doubt. The NjP'v Department believes that the men can only be alive if the era itself is not seriously damaged. Boats that have cruised about the -spot where it sank found no survivors, indicating perhaps that the hull of the vessel had not been pierced. The Paulding was beached in Prineetown Harbour with its hull badly damaged. One member of the crew was seriously scalded by an exploding steam pipe. Vessels with salvage equipment are sf ceding from Boston and New York to the -spot where the accident occurred, but there is little, prospect that raising operations can begin for at least another fifteen hours, the high seas, moreover, indicating that rescue work will be hampered. A later message states that . efforts were made without response to establish communication with the sunken craft.