Charles Bowers Momsen (June 21, 1896 – May 25, 1967), nicknamed "Swede", was born in Flushing, New York. [1] He was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929. [1]

Mar 3, 2016 · Charles B. Momsen, aged 70, died of cancer on Thursday, 25 May 1967, at Bay Pine Veterans Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Charles 'Swede' Momsen was an innovator and advocate of the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet. This article appears in: May 2010. In July 1943, the American submarine USS Tinosa was on patrol in Japanese waters when she came across an unescorted oil tanker. It was big at 20,000 tons.

Apr 23, 2019 · The disaster made national headlines, and the public demanded action. But it was Charles “Swede” Bowers Momsen (1896-1967) who made a difference. The trick was that as a sailor swam upward, they needed to breathe out the expanding air lest it rupture their lungs and fill their body with bubbles.

Momsen, arriving with USS FALCON, the submarine rescue ship, began the arduous task of both rescuing the trapped 33 men (26 men perished in the after section of the boat) and the later salvage of the ill-fated submarine.

Lt. Cdr. Charles “Swede” Momsen was eating a ham sandwich for lunch at the Washington Navy Yard when the phone rang. He was a submarine rescue expert and head of the Experimental Diving Unit, and one of his divers was just emerging from a pressure tank.

Mar 2, 2024 · Charles B. Momsen, aged 70, died of cancer on Thursday, 25 May 1967, at Bay Pine Veterans Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. On the eve of World War II, America’s newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive.

Charles Bowers Momsen was born in Flushing, Long Island, New York, on 21 June 1896. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with the Class of 1920 in June 1919....

A master of submarine warfare, Captain Momsen evolved a doctrine of attack whereby submarines could be organized into an attack group capable of operating deep in enemy-controlled waters...

Charles Bowers Momsen (June 21, 1896 – May 25, 1967), nicknamed "Swede", was born in Flushing, New York. He was an American pioneer in submarine rescue for the United States Navy, and he invented the underwater escape device later called the "Momsen lung", for which he received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal in 1929.