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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 68837 USS S-4 (SS-109) 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 Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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10 July 2000