Photo #: NH 57509
USS Squalus (SS-192) Salvage Operations, 1939
View taken from USS Falcon (ASR-2) on 12 August 1939,
after Squalus had been lifted off the sea bottom and was
being towed to shallower water, supported by salvage pontoons.
USS Wandank (AT-26) and a smaller tug (probably USS Penacook,
YT-6) are towing, while Falcon acted as restraining ship.
There are groups of three pontoons each visible on the surface
at the submerged submarine's bow and stern. One more pontoon
was underwater at the bow and three more at the stern.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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