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Photo #: NH 57505

USS Squalus (SS-192) Rescue Operations, May 1939


U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane landing the first nine Squalus survivors at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 24 May 1939.
Some of the surviors are visible in center, wrapped in blankets. They had been recovered from the sunken submarine by a McCann Rescue Chamber deployed from USS Falcon (ASR-2). Squalus had sunk in the Atlantic, off Portsmouth, on the previous day.

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

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16 June 2000