SUBMARINE SINKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5012, 11 August 1926, Page 2

SUBMARINE SINKS.

FIVE workmen drowned.

ACCIDENT IN DOCK.

LONDON, August 9. While undergoing repairs at Devonport the submarine. H 29 sank suddenly befi.Ae a large crowd of horrified workmen.

With sixteen officers and men aboard shej had just returned to her moorings in No; 2 Basin, after a short trip round the dock, where she was undergoing a refit. Men ha.d just resumed: work upon her when she tilted and began to sjnk alongside the basin wall. One officer was blown through the conning-tower. Six men were s.wept overboard. Two or .three others released themselves and dived overboard. Large crowds of workmen rushed to the quayside when the alarm was given and saw thelast man to lea,ve the vessel struggling through the hatch as the water surged over her. Two elf the man’s workmates, who were themselves rescued only a few moments before, leapt in and helped him ashore. As far as is known one artificer and four dockyard workmen were drowned. Most of the rescued were much exha.used, and were taken to the Naval surgery for treatment.

All of the five men drowned, except the engine-ro.sm artificer, were dockyard employees. Boats were immediately put out to pick up the men who dived overboard. Special apparatus w.asi rushed to the quayside and the task of primping out the basin begun. The submarine commissioned in May, 1922.