Crane Tries to Lift Submarine from Bottom of Atlantic, Sept. 28, 1925

Trying to Lift Vessel

Newport, R.I., Sept. 28 (AP)—Divers have found one of the interior bulkheads of the sunken submarine S-51 bent but not pierced, a radio dispatch received from the wreck today said. The messaged did not make clear whether the compartment was forward or aft.

The compartment was being experienced by the rescue parties according to radio message. Two slings under the submarine, and an attempt was to be made shortly with a 300-ton derrick to lift it above the surface.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Times, Monday, Sept. 28, 1925

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