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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 57503

USS Squalus (SS-192) Salvage Operations, 1939


A diving bell on the after deck of USS Falcon (ASR-2) during the early stages of the salvage operations, 30 May 1939.
This is not a McCann Rescue Chamber, but is a smaller unit.
Photographed by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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16 June 2000