"Meanwhile, the Navy organized one of the most extensive rescue crews in American submarine history in an attempt to lift the submarine to the surface. The best trained rescue personnel and equipment of the entire Navy was being concentrated off Portsmouth in an effort to save the trapped submarine crew:
"Navy Department officials said that ihe trapped men would be ordered to come to the surface in Twenty-six Men Said to Have Been Killed New York, May 24.
Twenty-six out of the crew of the United States submarine Squalus, which is submerged off White Island, off the New Hampshire Coast, are believed to be dead, according to high Naval officials in Portsmouth.
—Reuter.
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