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Mystery sloved!
This photo was taken September 21, 1938 at Sub Base, Groton, Ct.
The Left hand sub is unidentified but the right hand sub is the USS R-4.
Thanks to Dave Johnston for this information.
The 1938 huricane sent so much water up the Thames River that the pier these two boats
were moored to was submerged by the tide. You can see the mooring lines from the
boats to the dock going into the water.
The huricane made landfall in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York on September 21, 1938
as a strong Category 3 hurricane on the present-day Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
with a central pressure of 946 mbar (hPa).It then traveled across Long Island Sound
into Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and finally
into Canada while still moving at an unusually high speed.
The hurricane hit Long Island around 3:30 p.m., which was just a few hours before
astronomical high tide. At this time the eye was about 50 miles across and the
hurricane was about 500 miles wide.
New London was first swept by the winds and storm surge; then the waterfront
business district caught fire and burned out of control for 10 hours. Stately
homes along Ocean Beach were leveled by the storm surge. The permanently anchored
240-ton lightship at the head of New London Harbor was found on a sand bar two miles away.
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