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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42382

USS Squalus (SS-192) Salvage Operations, 1939


Blowing of salvage pontoons to lift Squalus off the sea bottom, 12 August 1939.
Photographed by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Original photo is mis-identified as showing salvage of USS Sculpin, which was present to support the operations, but was not the object of them.

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30 June 2000