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Apr. 11 afternoon cut up seal, lost time over beached self bailing (self filling) launch. finally got back to ship by non running outboard of sub. and then transferring to our own larger motor boat Nothing wrong with/seal but did not examine lungs.

Launch went down at buoy after some frantic pumping by its crew; swam ashore which was fortunately not far away. Took from about noon to all after noon to raise launch took over extra pump. (self contained gasoline unit) Mallard has every thing under sun for salvage rescue work + like.
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