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.
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Photo #: NH 85833
USS Chewink (AM-39)
Memorial services on the ship's afterdeck, marking the first
anniversary of the accidental sinking of USS S-4 (SS-109),
which took place on 17 December 1927.
At the time of this photograph Chewink and the repaired
S-4 were participating in tests of submarine rescue and
salvage techniques and equipment.
Courtesy of Ted Stone, 1977.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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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Photo #: NH 69221
USS S-4 (SS-109)
Photograph dated 20 December 1928, during salvage tests off New
London, Connecticut. She is being supported by salvage pontoons,
with USS Falcon (AM-28) assisting from alongside and a
U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat off her bow.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco,
California, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 69229
USS S-4 (SS-109)
"Partially raised S-4 begins to sink a second time
after a leak in the Motor Room foiled salvage operations. S-4
had been submerged for 49 hours when salvage operations using
pontoons attached to pad eyes was begun, 20 December 1928."
(quoted from original caption released with this photograph in
1928).
USS S-4 had been accidently sunk a year earlier, and,
following salvage and repairs, was in use at the time of this
photograph for developing equipment and techniques for submarine
rescue and salvage. This view shows her bow lifting out of the
water as she sinks by the stern, while illuminated by a searchlight.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco,
California, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 100126
Lieutenant Carlton Shugg, USN(CC),
co-designer of submarine rescue chamber and designer of the New
London submarine escape training tower;
Lieutenant Norman S. Ives, USN,
Commanding Officer of USS S-4 (SS-109);
Lieutenant Charles B. Momsen, USN,
developer of the submarine escape "lung"; and
Chief Gunner Clarence Tibbals, USN,
co-developer of the submarine escape "lung" and of
the submarine rescue chamber.
Photographed at New London, Connecticut, circa the Winter of
1928-29. The four men are listed from left to right in this view.
Courtesy of Mr. Wallace Shugg, 1984.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102881
Diving Bell
Used at Key West, Florida, in salvage tests on USS S-4
(SS-109), December 1929.
Note the conical fitting on the bottom of the diving bell, shaped
to mate with the submarine's hatch.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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