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Photo #: NH 43499

Salvage of USS F-4 (SS-23), April-August 1915


All salvage pontoons on the surface, off Honolulu, Hawaii, circa 29 August 1915, with preparations under way to tow the sunken submarine into Honolulu Harbor. The salvage equipment was devised by Naval Constructor Julius A. Furer.
Halftone photograph, copied from "Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers", Volume 24, 1916, Figure 13.
The tug in the center is probably USS Navajo.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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27 June 2000