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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Porpoise sliding down the ways at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, June 20, 1935. The lines attached to her sides were connected to large drag chains which slowed her slide once she hit the water, preventing her momentum from carrying her all the way across the river to the other side. Her two port side bow torpedo tube outer doors are visible here; they are normally out of view under water when she is afloat. | |||
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A good port side view of Porpoise. The location is unknown for sure, but suspected to be the Piscataqua River near Kittery, ME. The date is probably the fall of 1935, shortly after her commissioning. She does not yet have a deck gun installed in the photo. | |||
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National Archives photo via historylink101.com

A good port side view of Porpoise. The location is unknown for sure, but suspected to be the Piscataqua River near Kittery, ME. The date is probably the fall of 1935, shortly after her commissioning. She does not yet have a deck gun installed in the photo.
National Archives Photo

National Archives Photo

Photo NH 6367-42 courtesy of the Naval History & Heritage Command.

USN photo # 1464-44, courtesy of NARA.

John Frankhauser was a torpedoman who spent the whole of WW II aboard Porpoise. He made her war patrols and when it was decided she was too old for combat she was sent to New London as a training submarine.
John was raised in Northern Washington State and remained in the state until his death. He was a member of the SubVets of WW II and later Seattle Base Submarine Veterans Inc.
Photo from the book: US Submarines in World War II, An Illustrated History
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