On the evening of September 25, 1925 the U.S. Navy submarine S-51 was rammed by the steamship SS City of Rome in open seas off Block Island, Rhode Island, and sank in 132 feet of water, with the loss of 33 lives. 
This disaster evoked such a storm of popular indignation against the Navy Department that something had to be done. It was felt that at all costs a determined attempt must be made to raise the S-51, if only to restore public confidence. No vessel had ever been raised from such a depth, and to the technical mind the thing was impossible. 
The task of salvaging the submarine fell to Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg and a group of naval divers scavenged from all over the fleet. It was done painstakingly over a nine month period and involved obstacle after obstacle, all while battling rough seas, icy waters, and "the bends." Working in hard hats with lead boots, in minimal light, while dragging air lines behind them, each diver had about an hour of exhausting and terrifying work before a lengthy decompression process. It is no exaggeration to say that the impossible was achieved.

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Ellsberg, Commander Edward

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In The Village

BAILEY, Anthony

From the "sun's over the yardarm" to being "three sheets to the wind," Bottoms Up! is a sandbar-hopping voyage through the centuries of toasts, quotes, slogans and sayings that mark drinking's age-old relationship with sailors and the sea. 
Robert McKenna has spent years collecting hundreds of nautical-related drinking phrases and utterances. Here he distills them, stirs them with fun facts, and offers them up with amusing anecdotes to celebrate in high style this grandest of all maritime traditions. 
So "splice the main brace" and make a splash at your next event (so to speak). Just don't lift a glass...raise one! Hoist the gin pennant, dress ship, set your blenders to mix and charge your glasses and offer a tribute to King Neptune.

Bottoms Up!: Toasts, Tales & Traditions Of Drinking's Long History As A Nautical Pastime

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McKenna,Robert

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The Ensign Story: North America's Largest Class of Full-keel, One Design Sailboats

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Wesolowski, Jim

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Smugglers of Spirits: Prohibition and the Coast Guard Patrol

Waters, Harold

The Confessions of a Rum-Runner is an authentic journal of liquor smuggling during Prohibition (1920-1933). The author went into rum-running for the excitement and the chance to make money quickly. In time he built up a successful organization and carried on a business running into millions of dollars. After amassing a fortune, he called it quits, married the woman of his dreams, and opened a famous hotel in Africa. First published in the summer of 1928, The Confessions of a Rum-Runner is the most insightful account of the inner workings of smuggling during Prohibition ever written.

The Confessions of a Rum Runner

Barbican, James

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