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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