Rescue Efforts Paused Due to Rough Seas, Sept. 28, 1925

Rescue Work Abandoned

New London, Conn., Sept. 28 (AP)—Advices ashore here at noon today were to the effect that conditions of the sea and weather at the locality of the S-51 wreck were so bad that rescue operations had to be suspended for the time being. The Century 100-ton crane vessel, was ordered to move to Block Harbor, and the Monarch, the larger crane vessel, was ordered to a harbor at Block Island and was starting there under tow.

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

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