SUBMARINE SUNK

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1927, Page 2

SUBMARINE SUNK

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association (Received this day at 8 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Dee. !.-. A message from Province-town on Capo Cod harbour Massaclmssets states a submarine was so rammed that it sunk to-day in a collision with the destroyer Paulding. The fate of the crew approximately four officers and forty men is unknown. The submarine came suddenly to the surface ahead of the destroyer, ft is believed the force of the collision damaged the hull serioustv.

43 ABOARD MISSING. NEAY YORK. December 17. Seven hours after the destroyer Paul ding of the anti-rum running patrol had collided with Submarine St sending the latter to the bottom in one hundred feet of water off Cape Cod. the fate of forty three officers and men in the sunken vessef was still in doubt. The Navy Department believe they can only be alive if the craft itself is not seriously damaged. Boats that have cruised about the spot where it sank have found no survivors, indicating that perhaps the hull of the vessel was not pierced. The Paulding was lynched in Provinoetown harbour with hei hull badly damaged.. A member of the crow was seriously scalded by an exploding steam pipe. Vessels with salvage equipment are speeding to the spot of the accident, but there is little prospects that raising operations can bee in for at least another fifteen hours. High seas, moreover, are indicating that rescue work will hampered. A later message states efforts were made without respond? to establish communication with, or raise the sunken craft.

LITTLE HOPE ENTERTAINED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). NEAY YORK, Dee. 19. A message from Provinoetown, Mas- • saelmsetts, states little hope is lie d for the recue of the crew of the sub- _ marine 5.4. Twelve divers are attempting to establish contact and attach hawsers to the vessel. The sea continues rough and choppy, and the temperature is at freezing point. Fifteen vessels and five aeroplanes are at the scene of the work. Coastguard officials said hubbies of oil rose for two hours from the spot alwvo the submarine. This is considered an ominous sign, indicating that a hole lias l>een horn in 5.4. The submarine mothership Bush noil, failed to reach 8.4 with an oscillator. The vessel is lving on a muddy and spong> bottom.