Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] That PM sub with tracks ...

["Ty Alley" <tydes@shreve.net>]

Michael,
I think it would be a good idea to find as much information on the sub as
well as Hamlin and Sodders.
These guys and their sub are definitely significant to all of us as psubbers
if only from a historical perspective.
It would be a shame if their efforts were lost because surviving family
members thought that no one really cared.
It's certainly worth a try, for once a piece of history is gone, it's
normally gone forever.
Good luck in your search.
Ty
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael B. Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] That PM sub with tracks ...


> I sat here and thought about it.  It was in a 1950 magazine; not
> really that long ago (I keep telling myself).  I wonder if any of
> the guys involved are still around?
>
> I checked.  The designer and builder was Halley Hamlin.  The
> SSDI says that he died in 1990, in California.  The "mechanic" was
> Orville Sodders, who helped died in the last month: I found his name
> in the parish newsletter for an Indiana Roman Catholic church in
> Newburgh, Indiana.
>
> Does anyone want me to contact Sodders' daughter?  Or to follow
> up on Hamlin's family?  They might have left the plans ...
>
>
> Mike
>