Photo #: NH 69128
USS S-37 (SS-142)
Crew members bringing bodies up through the submarine's after
hatch, following an explosion on board that killed three Sailors
and injured five others on the night of 10 October 1923. At the
time of the accident S-37 was moored alongside USS Beaver
(AS-5) in Los Angeles Harbor, California.
Probably photographed from on board Beaver.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco,
California, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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