USS Bushnell (AS 15) with units of Submarine Squardon 12 alongside.

TODAY IN KEY WEST HISTORY / March 4, 1906

1906 In repose to reports that Greek divers were destroying the sponge beds, Governor N.B. Broward wrote the sheriffs of Monroe, Lee, Hillsborought and Levy counties instructing them to enforce Florida’s law which prohibited taking of sponges by dredges or diving.

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