On the Bottom: The Raising of the Submarine S-51 epub, azw3, m4b | 271.51 MB | English | Isbn:9781480493759 | Author: Edward Ellsberg | Year: 2014 Category:Sports Fan Video Games & Accessories, PC-compatible Games, History
Description:
The man who led the salvage efforts to raise a sunken US Navy submarine recounts the mission in a tale "that will surely rank among the epics of the sea" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer ).
The sinking of the submarine S-51 was one of the greatest tragedies in American naval history. Due to a miscommunication and subsequent collision between the sub and a passing steamship on a September night, the S-51 , including thirty-three of its crew of thirty-six, sank to the ocean depths. The tragedy of the S-51 captivated the nation, and was a fixture in the pages of American newspapers. The story took on a whole new dimension when the navy decided to take over the salvage of the thousand-ton behemoth from a civilian company.
Heading the crew tasked with this impossible feat was Edward Ellsberg, at the time a lieutenant commander. On the Bottom is Ellsberg's account of the successes and failures he and his men experienced as they attempted an astonishing feat of engineering and bravery: the first salvage of a submarine from the open ocean.