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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 41808

USS S-5
(SS-110)

Navy tug alongside the partially sunken submarine's stern, while initial salvage operations were underway, in early September 1920.
The battleship Ohio (BB-12), which attempted to tow S-5 into shallower water, is in the background.

Donation of Ellis J. Altman, 1938.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 17 February 2005