Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Deepest Sounding on Record. [ARTICLE]

Deepest Sounding on Record.

London, Feb. 29. —The British war ship I enguin, while engaged in making deep-sea soundings between Tonga and New Zealand, got bottom at 5,155 fathoms. The deepest sounding ever before made was by the American war ship 1 uscarora off the northeast coast of Japan, when bottom was reached at 4,655 fathoms.