Launching USS
Pickerel SS 177 (P-6)
July 7, 1936 at
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT.
The destroyer USS
Fox is in the background.
The Ships sponsor
was Miss Evelyn Standley, daughter
of Rear Admiral
William Standley, acting Secretary of the Navy,
who, along with
his wife, attended the launching along with 4000 other guests..
USS Pickerel
SS 177
Moored alongside
USS Holland (AS-3), from which
the photograph
was taken, the submarines are
(from left
to right): Salmon (SS-182); Seal (SS-183);
Pickerel (SS-177);
Plunger (SS-179); Snapper (SS-185)
and Permit
(SS-178). Aircraft Carrier in background is the USS Enterprise.
