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NH 68837 USS S-4 (SS-109)

Photo #: NH 68837 USS S-4 (SS-109)
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Title: USS S-4 (SS-109)
Description: Photograph dated 14 December 1928, taken in port with USS Falcon (AM-28) alongside. The original caption reads: The submarine S-4 just one year after she sank with a loss of forty lives. The repaired craft will be sent to the bottom without anyone aboard at Block Island, New London, Connecticut, to test out various safety devices developed as a result of the S-4 and S-51 disasters. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 68837
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