Word: hatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles away from the spot where the submarine S-51 was sunk off Block Island in collision with the coastwise steamer City of Rome, the would-be rescuers of any sailors alive in the sunken submarine lost hope. Two divers sent down each succeeded in entering the battery room hatch and each brought up the body of a seaman...
...Together, with a combined lifting capacity of 350 tons, they failed to budge the sunken craft. They tried a second time and failed. It was concluded that the submarine had entirely filled with water. A diver with an oxy-acetaline torch cut a tiny hole in the engine room hatch. A few air bubbles escaped. Then nothing more. The compartment was filled with water...
...three survivors of the wreck, picked up after being swept through the conning tower hatch as the submarine sank, testified that they believed at least four others had escaped through the hatch but had drowned...
Frederick E. Techemaker of Indianapolis, who lost twin sons on the S-51, said: "I am proud that my sons were serving their country when they died. I think the Navy is the finest possible life for travel." any young man who wishes to Later the engine room hatch was cut open and three bodies were taken out by divers. Another diver with an electrical device burned a hole in the forward torpedo room.*That also was flooded. All hope was gone...
...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...