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Photo #: NH 69224

USS S-4
(SS-109)

Off Block Island, before being submerged during tests of safety devices, circa 17 December 1928.
She had been accidently sunk a year earlier, and, following salvage and repairs, was used to develop equipment and techniques for submarine rescue and salvage.

Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 11 April 2005