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Show SUBMARINE BOAT IS FOUNDERED British Vessel in Maneuvers Fails to Come to Surface No Hope for Crew. Plymouth, Eng. Jan. 16. The BrK ish submarine A-7 foundered off here today and the authorities say there tfl little hope of her crew being saved. The sub-marine was engaged in ex erclse6 in the sound with a number 6! her sister vessels. She failed to come to the surface with the other boats when the maneuvers weM brought to an end. The A-7 was one of a class of nine bouts numbered "A-5" to "A-i:j." She was built in 19U4 and measured 150 feet in length. Her submerged displacement dis-placement was 204 tons. Her en gines developed an indicated horse power of 600, giving her a surface speed of 1H knots and a submerged speed of 9 knot , After the maneuvers were over, two sister submarines noticed that their companion vessel did not come up, and immediately signalled mi ,i.,sim ance to Plymouth and Devonport. Salvage vessels hurried to the scene. Bubbles were seen rising to the surface In Cawsand Bay and grap-plers grap-plers were thrown out to bring tho wrecked vessel to the surface, although al-though the bubbles Indicated that her hull had been penetrated and caused despair for the salvation of the crew, A short time afterward, however the parent vessel Onyx got Into com municatlon with the sailors, aii of whom were alive. At G o'clock the crew had not yet been rescued. As the submarine had gone down some time before noon she had then been below water for over six hours The last signal from the entombed men was heard at a quarter past five. The vessel lies at about 100 feet depth. |