Photo #: NH 41821
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
on 19 March 1928, following salvage.
Note S-4's flag flying at half-mast and the salvage pontoons
(among them YSP-6 and YSP-10) used to support her
as she was towed to port.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41860
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
19 March 1928, following salvage.
Salvage pontoons YSP-10 and YSP-6 are visible in
the background, and several diving support rafts are alongside
the submarine.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41819
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
19 March 1928, following salvage.
The original caption reads: "S-4 in drydock, with
bodies of eight seamen still sealed in one of its compartments
.... The S-4 as she slowly emerged from the water in dry
dock today, disclosing the huge hole in her side."
The submarine sank after colliding with USCGC Paulding
on 17 December 1927. The hole from the collision was in her starboard
hull side, just forward of her deck gun, and is not visible in
this photograph, which was taken from off S-4's port quarter.
Salvage pontoons YSP-10 and YSP-6 are visible in
the background. Several diving support rafts are alongside the
submarine.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41817
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
19 March 1928, after salvage.
The original caption reads: "In drydock with bodies of 8
seamen still sealed in one of its compartments. The ill-fated
S-4 was placed in drydock and the sea water drained out
of her ..., today for the first time the gaping hole in her side
made by the Coast Guard Destroyer Paulding came into view.
Photo shows Comdr. Saunders placing a wreath over the spot where
the 8 bodies of seamen still lie entombed in the sub."
The hole made in S-4 hull is still below the water level
in this photograph. It was located below the break in superstructure
plating visible in in the left side of the image.
Note the diving support raft in the background.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41822
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
on 19 March 1928, following salvage.
Among the salvage pontoons present are YSP-3, YSP-4
and YSP-10.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41820
USS S-4 (SS-109)
View amidships, taken soon after entering dry dock at the Boston
Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 19 March 1928.
Note flag flying at half-mast, in honor of crewmen who lost their
lives when S-4 collided with USCGC Paulding on
17 December 1927.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41826
USS S-4 (SS-109)
In dry dock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
on 19 March 1928, after salvage. The water has been largely pumped
out of the drydock, exposing the hole in S-4's starboard
side (just forward of her 4"/50 deck gun) made when she
collided with USCGC Paulding on 17 December 1927. The
bodies of eight crew members are still in the submarine's Torpedo
Room, where they were trapped when she sank after the collision.
Note diving support rafts alongside S-4 and salvage pontoon
in the right foreground.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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