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Show Trawlers Dragged at Sea, Captains Blame Subi-ai'ine PORTLAND, Me. Two fishing dragger captains reported recently that they thought the mysterious underwater object that almost sank their ships was a Russian submarine. subma-rine. Capt. Arthur W. Jordan ol the 1 10-foot. Cherokee said that ten minutes min-utes after he had lowered his nets and made them fast with heavy steel cables, the nets were pullpd taut and the boat was pulled, stern-first, stern-first, for 25 minutes until the cables snapped Scon ai'tei thai, the Cherokee picked up a distress call from the dragger livznne. commanded by Captain Jordan's brother, Thomas. The message said it had been pulled astern for 90 minutes until the cables snapped. Both captains ascribed then experiences ex-periences to a Russian submarine because the Coast Guard reported there were no American submarines subma-rines in the area. Neither did Canada Cana-da have submarines there and it was not a whale, they held, because the cables had been snapped by metal. |