S-4 salvage
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The salvage operation went remarkably well, all things considered. The Navy had learned a lot about open ocean salvage during the S-51 operation two years prior. Those lessons greatly sped the S-4 operation, and she was off the bottom in a little over three months, as opposed to the 9½ months for the S-51.
Please see the Jim Christley article at this link for the story of the S-4.
U.S. Navy photo.
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U.S. Navy photo.
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U.S. Navy photo.
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U.S. Navy photo.
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U.S. Navy photo.
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U.S. Navy photo.
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Image provided courtesy of the Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime College, Papers of John S. Baylis.
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U.S. Navy photo
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Image provided courtesy of the Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime College, Papers of John S. Baylis via Joe Williams.
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mage provided courtesy of the Stephen B. Luce Library, SUNY Maritime College, Papers of John S. Baylis via Joe Williams.
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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
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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