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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