Gunnison Valley News | 1926-07-15 | Page 6 | Men on S-51 Died at Posts

Men On S-51 Died At Posts New York. The dead members of the crew of the submarine S-51 died at their posts, Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg said. As the rusty, torn hulk of the submarine lay in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard. Lieutenant Commander Elsberg, for the first time told what the divers working under him saw in the vessel as it lay on the ocean bed off Block island, where she sank, after being rammed by the City of Rome, last fall. "While the S-51 was at the bottom divers entered through the hatches and explored her," he said. "Every man seen was at his station. Some of them had their hands on valves. "We saw J. M. Schoe-field, Schoe-field, radio operator, at his post, his body rigid in a chair, his head and shoulders bobbing up and down in the green water over the keys of his instrument."