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Show SUBMARINE F-4 HAS BEEN RAISED Honolulu, Aug. 29. Tho United States submarine F-l, submerged outside out-side the harbor hero slnco March 25 last, was refloated late today and towed to the quarantine station In Honolulu bay. Although the F-4 has' been brought into tho harbor the wreck Is still submerged sub-merged to a depth of six feet, and probably will not be dry docked until Tuesday. Nothing has been divulged by the naval officials Iregardlng condi tions, u known, inside the vessel. Tho actual raising operations ' occupied oc-cupied two hours, the planB of the engineers working without a hitch Tho still submerged derelict was towed slowly Into tho harbor where all the shipping, including the interned in-terned German gunboat Geler half-masted half-masted their flags. ' When tho submarine has been dry-docked dry-docked a board composed of Rear Admiral Ad-miral Clifford J. Boush, commander of the naval station; Lieutenant Kir-by Kir-by B. Crittenden and Naval Constructor Construc-tor Julius A. Furer, will begin a thorough thor-ough investigation for the purpose of ascertaining, if possible, the cause of the disaster. . I San Francisco, Aug. 29. Tho sub- fl m,aIIn,e f"4' commanded by Lieutenant I Alfred L, Ede, and with a crew of I twenty-ono men, sank off the Hono- lulu barbor March 25, 1915, during I maneuvers. She was located two days later, and Diver John Agraz of fl the navy descended 215 'feet, estab- fl llshlng a new world's record, to fa- I cilitate tho work-of bringing hor to I might have been alive at that time, but attempts at rescue failed, and on March 30 Rear Admiral Moore, commanding com-manding the Honolulu naval station, reported that the F-4 lay in 270 feet of water, and would have to bo raised by pontoons. Secretary Daniels announced that the boat would be raised at any cost to determine the cause of the accident, acci-dent, and diving apparatus and divers di-vers were sent out, leaving San Francisco Fran-cisco April C on the cruiser Maryland. Mary-land. One of the divers, Frank Crilly, went down 22S feet, and found one of the compartments of the F-4 filled with water Another, William Lough-man, Lough-man, descended 220 foot the next day, and was seriously Injured by waer pressure. These men put lines on tho F-4 by which the boat was dragged up the shelving bottom, but in the process the stern was wrecked and work was halted to await the arrival of pontoons. At the time of the accident reports gained circulation that the F-l was uot in good shape when she met disaster. dis-aster. These were officially denied. 00 |