Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-26 | Page 1 | Ten U. S. Planes Battered into Shapeless Wrecks, Seven Others Damaged, as Terrific Gale Rates

I Ten T e U. U S. S Planes Battered Into Shapeless Wrecks Seven Others Damaged as Terrific Gale Rages Rases I BALTIMORE Md Id Oct 26 A ATen AP Ten Ten United States navy seaplanes were battered Into shapeless heaps and seven less seriously damaged yesterday when under the buffet buffet- ings of a terrific southwest gale they dragged with them or broke i 1 loose from pound anchors and I piled up along several miles of ot seawall seawall sea sea- wall and beach at Sollers Sellers Point near near the mouth of the Patapsco sea sea-I river Six other machines safely rode rod out the storm The rhe planes were a double detachment detachment detach detach- ment meat from Hampton Roads ten at attached attached at- at to scouting squadron VS 1 six to torpedo squadron n VT VT-i while the seventeenth machine wrecked I was a staff plane All had been at anchor of off the point since last Friday Fri Friday Friday Fri Fri- day when they were brought he here e to take part in an aerial pageant In connection with the Schneider seaplane seaplane seaplane sea sea- plane trophy race at Bay Shore Park One of three planes anchored In tn Inthe inthe the Chesapeake off oft Bay Shore also I broke from its moorings and drifted I out into the ba bay It had not been located eaily eally this morning None None of the machines were occupied when they crashed Commander T. T G. G Ellyson In charge of one seaplane squadron said that seven of the ships would be repaired and flown back to Hampton Roads He Ho believed that the motors footers of ot the other ten could be salvaged The planes had been in service only about tw two months and comprised about sixth one-sixth of the navys navy's craft of their particular class Exclusive of ot the value of the motors the casualties represent a al l loss ss of ot per plane The moorings the craft had been chosen by Commander Ellyson and Lieutenant Commander G. G ASmith A A. Smith commanding the second I squadron as the most suitable to ti protect the planes from a southeast storm warnings of which had been received from Washington ton When the gale sale blew up out out of the southwest southwest southwest south south- west however the expected safe sate anchorage w was s turned into an open roadstead and th the protecting land became a treacherous shore