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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 45641

Submarine Escape "Lung"


Crewman A.L. Rosenkotter of USS V-5 (SC-1) demonstrates the use of the submarine's after escape hatch and the emergency escape "lung", during V-5's trials, July 1930.
In 1931, V-5 was renamed and redesignated, becoming USS Narwhal (SS-167).

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12 November 1999