Squalus Pre-Launching
photo Sept. 14, 1938.
The two signs read:
"Launching Stand" and "USS Squalus, Submarine (SS 192),
Keel Laid Oct. 18,
1937, Launched Sept. 14, 1938"
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Squalus pre-launching
photo, Sept. 14, 1938.
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Squalus ready for launching, Sept.
14, 1938
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Launching of
USS Squalus SS 192 on Sept. 14, 1938
The photo also states
it was 3:45 PM DST (Daylight Savings Time)
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Approaching
berth #1 after launching, Sept. 14, 1938.
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USS Squalus
SS 192 fitting out after launch.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction January 1938.
View is looking
forward.
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USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction.
View is looking
aft.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction.
Notice men working
on torpedo tubes at bottom of photo.
View is looking
aft.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction.
Note the 4 torpedo
tubes at bottom of photo.
View looking aft.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction.
Note chalk mark
noting Fr.176 written on what might be the after trim tank.
View is looking
forward.
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USS Squalus
SS 192 during construction.
The submarine is
almost completed.
View is looking
forward.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 after launch during fitting out.
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 after launch during fitting out phase, fall 1938.
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USS Squalus
SS 192 recovery operation
National
Archives Photo
USS Squalus
SS 192 rescued crew.
Squalus Capt. Naquin
is standing center with no hat on.
He was last man
out of the Squalus into the rescue chamber.
National
Archives Photo
Squalus at Berth
6 for pumping out, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The front of the
conning tower shows damage caused by lifting pontoons.
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Damage to conning
tower by lifting pontoons. Sub is still being pumped out.
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Squalus in dry
dock after pumping out. The sub has been positioned
and the water is
being pumped out of the dock.
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The pumping
down process is still underway. The boat is resting on her keel
blocks and workmen
are already at work on opening the boat and inspectors
are hard at work
trying to find what had gone wrong.
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Patch cut out
of hull for salvage work. Duct work can be seen leading
into the boat to
vent gases or dry the interior.
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Squalus in dry
dock, Sept. 15, 1938
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Squalus in dry
dock post salvage.
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Squalus in dry
dock, post salvage, Sept. 16, 1939.
Note lifting chain
draped over port propeller shaft just forward of the screw.
Salvage pontoons
flank the stern.
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Damage to hull
caused by the lifting chains.
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Deflections
and rupture to hull plating made during lifting process.
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Damage to bilge
keels by lifting chains.
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Squalus Forward
Torpedo Room condition post salvage.
View is looking
forward. Photo taken Sept. 15, 1939
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Squalus Forward
Torpedo Room condition post salvage.
View is looking
aft. Photo taken Sept. 15, 1939.
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Officers Wardroom,
USS Squalus Sept. 15, 1939
View is looking
aft and to port.
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Caption says
this is the forward battery compartment though this looks to be the
crews berthing space
which would make it the after battery. The plank shown just
left of center in
the photo is spanning a hole cut in the deck to remove a body of a
crewman that was
trapped below decks. View is looking aft.
Photo taken Sept.
15,1939.
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Condition of
the Squalus Control Room after the boat was salvaged.
View is looking
forward and to port. The ships helm is on the right.
The two large wheels,
left, are the stern and bow plane controllers.
The levers in the
middle are for the main ballast tank vents and Kingstons.
The duct work at
the top is temporary and providing air for drying the boat out
from topside fans.
It may also be for venting gases from the battery wells
since sulfuric acid
and salt water form poisonous chlorine gas.
Photo taken Sept.
15, 1939.
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Squalus control
room looking aft.
Better view of temporary
ductwork for drying and ventilating the boat.
Photo taken Sept.
15, 1939.
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Squalus control
room looking aft port side. Stern planes control wheel shown.
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Caption has
this as the Squalus "Galley" looking forward. It of taken in the
Crews mess/galley
space. Two thwart ship tables can be seen in this photo.
Through the doorway
just right of center can be seen the bunks of the crews
berthing space or
after battery berthing. Photo taken Sept. 15, 1939.
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Squalus engine
room looking aft. Again, the caption seems to mis-identify the
compartment by stating
this is the After Battery Room which should have been
the same compartment
the crews berthing and messing spaces were in. Since
the diesel engines
shown here take up all the space in the compartment above
and below decks
there would have been no room for the huge batteries in this
same compartment.
Photo taken Sept. 15, 1939.
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Salvage work
continues. A large crane has been brought in to remove
heavy items, probably
battery cells. Lockers and other debris from the
interior can be
seen on deck. The after rescue messenger buoy,
(seen in the left
foreground), which sadly was not released because
nobody had time
to release it before they drowned. That makes the
room the dockworkers
above the engine room. The conning
tower fairwater
can just be seen in back of the large block from the crane.
The American flag
still fly's from the flag staff.
Thanks
to Paul Farace, curator, of the USS Cod
Museum for helping identify the buoy.
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