Photo #: NH 783
USS S-4 (SS-109)
View in the Torpedo Room, where eight men died a lingering death
after the submarine was sunk in collision with USCGC Paulding
off Provincetown, Massachusetts, on 17 December 1927.
This view looks aft at the door into the Battery Room, showing
the door tightly dogged. The door itself was tight, but the glass
deadlight leaked, as is shown by the rubber sheet held in place
by a pinch bar and wooden wedges, placed there by the trapped
men.
Photographed while S-4 was drydocked at the Boston Navy
Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 20 March 1928.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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