<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">F-1 on the bottom off the California coast where she sank after being rammed by the F-3 on December 17, 1917. This view is of the aft end of the conning tower fairwater from starboard. This and all following photos were taken by the DSRV Avalon (DSRV-2) in 1986.
<small>Photo provided by MMCM(SS) Rick Larson, USN, (Ret.)</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">This view is also of the starboard side of the fairwater, but taken from a little farther forward. On the far right in the photo is the open hatch to the conning tower.
<small>USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">A haunting view of the conning tower fairwater from the port side. The open conning tower hatch can be see in the center. As the boat sank, one man was able to push himself out of the conning tower through this hatch. It was normally left open while running on the surface. On either side of the hatch are the periscope shears.
<small>USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">This is the open hatch for the torpedo room, seen from the port side. Why this hatch is open is not known. It would have been normally kept shut during a surface cruise. One could speculate that it was opened by a crewman from below as the boat sank. No one successfully got out of this hatch.
<small>USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">This view is at the bow from the port side. Visible is the flared out deck that covers the bow plane operating system. Just aft of this is the short radio mast/jackstaff.
<small>USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.</small>
<small>USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.</small>
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Revision as of 14:29, 7 September 2023
F-1 on the bottom off the California coast where she sank after being rammed by the F-3 on December 17, 1917. This view is of the aft end of the conning tower fairwater from starboard. This and all following photos were taken by the DSRV Avalon (DSRV-2) in 1986.
Photo provided by MMCM(SS) Rick Larson, USN, (Ret.)
This view is also of the starboard side of the fairwater, but taken from a little farther forward. On the far right in the photo is the open hatch to the conning tower.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
A haunting view of the conning tower fairwater from the port side. The open conning tower hatch can be see in the center. As the boat sank, one man was able to push himself out of the conning tower through this hatch. It was normally left open while running on the surface. On either side of the hatch are the periscope shears.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
This is the open hatch for the torpedo room, seen from the port side. Why this hatch is open is not known. It would have been normally kept shut during a surface cruise. One could speculate that it was opened by a crewman from below as the boat sank. No one successfully got out of this hatch.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
This view is at the bow from the port side. Visible is the flared out deck that covers the bow plane operating system. Just aft of this is the short radio mast/jackstaff.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
USN photo courtesy of Steve Lawson of California Wreck Divers.
