In a collision with a steamship, City of Rome, on the night of
September 25, 1925, the U.S. Navy Submarine S-51 sank in 132 feet
of water, taking 33 sailors to the ocean floor. This is the story
of the men charged with doing the impossible-raising the thousand
ton sub from the bottom of the sea. Added to this modern classic of
true adventure are a foreword and afterword giving specifics of the
accident and the aftermath, additional photographs, a publisher''s
preface, and appendices.
關於作者:
Commander Edward Ellsberg graduated first in his class from
the U.S. Naval Academy in 1914. In 1925, he led the effort to raise
the S-51, for which he became the first sailor to earn the
Distinguished Service Medal during peacetime, and was promoted to
Commander by a special act of Congress. In the late 1920s, Ellsberg
began his prolific career as a writer of Naval history and
fiction.
目錄:
PUBLISHER''S PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I Collision
CHAPTERII On the S-51
CHAPTER III Rescue Efforts
CHAPTER IV Vacillation
CHAVFERV The Salvage Problem
CHAPTER VI Diving
CHAPTER VII The Divers
CHAPTER VIII Off Block Island
CHAPTERIX In the Engine Room
CHAF~RX The First Snag
CHAPTERXI The Control Room
CHAPTER XII Another Struggle
CHAFrERXIII The First Pontoon
CHAPTERXIV Blowing the Ballast Tanks
CHAPTERXV Outside the Control Room
CHAPTERXVI A Lost Diver
CHAPTERXVII The Motor Room
CHAPTER XVIII: Winter
CHAPTERXIX A Diving School
CHAPTERXX Lost, a Submarine
CHAFrER XXI Pontoons Again
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