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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53838

USS H-3
(Submarine # 30)

Preparing the submarine for lifting from the sands of Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California, circa early March 1917, during the successful salvage operation undertaken by the Mercer-Fraser Company, of Eureka.
Photographed from off H-3's port bow, showing the derrick used in the recovery work.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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4 May 2004