S-4 salvage

This photo was taken at approximately 3:30 pm on March 17, 1928, shortly after the salvage force successfully raised the S-4 from the bottom of Cape Cod Bay off Provincetown, MA. The six salvage pontoons that are supporting the S-4's wreck can be seen, and in the middle is the sub's conning tower fairwater. The ship on the left is the submarine rescue vessel USS Falcon (ASR-2), the lead salvage ship of the force. She is connected to the S-4 and the pontoons via towing chains and air hoses. Compressed air had to be continuously pumped to the pontoons in order to keep them fully buoyant. The Falcon trailed the S-4 all the way back to Boston.

U.S. Navy photo.

The S-4 under tow to the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA. on the morning of March 18, 1928. They are in Boston's inner harbor at this point, with Haymarket and the North End in view in the background. The fleet tugs USS Wandank (AT-26) and Sagamore (AT-20) are in the lead. The two smaller tugs are not identified.

U.S. Navy photo.

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman

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  Walter Bishop

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  Henry Handy Brown

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  Charles Frederick Burrell

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  Charles Beresford Calcott

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  William Franklin Callaway

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  Graham Newell Fitch

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  Charles A. Ford / Civilian

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  Daniel Michael Gavin

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  Dewey Victor Haney

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  Aaron A. Hodges w/Uncle

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  Roy Kehlor Jones

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  Joseph Alfred McGinley

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  John Jospeh Powers

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  Roger Leslie Short

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  Frank Snizek

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  Joseph William Sternman

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  Joseph Leighton Stevens

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  Donald Weller

There were 22 other crew that we don't have images for. If you have photos of these missing men please contact On Eternal Patrol or this web page with this information.

Other lost Crew with no photo:

Clarence Ferdinand Bethke / Earl Welsh Boone / Elmer Lyfford Cash / Russell Archibald Crabb / William Dempsey / Robert William Diefenbach / John Joseph Fenell / Donald Fred Goering / Peder Haaland / Buster Harris / Arthur Frederick Hodges / Paul Richard Kempfer / J. H. Long / Fred Henry O'Shields / George Pelnar / Rudolf James Rose / Alfred Eugene Seaton / Carl Bernice Strange / Mariano Tedar / Carl Harold Thompson / Walter Ross Tolson / James Johnson White

Photos courtesy of the On Eternal Patrol website

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