There are very few good photographs of the S-5 due to her very short life span. In fact, the webmasters are only aware of three, and one of these is shown here. This very nice photo shows S-5 on builders trials in the Atlantic, in January or February of 1920. She displays all of the typical features of the as-built Government design. S-5 would be lost in an unusual diving accident just six months after this photo was taken. Miraculously, her crew was able to raise the stern of the sunken boat above the waves and they laboriously cut a hole in the pressure hull in the aft most tiller room. The entire crew was rescued by a passing steamer. A later salvage effort failed and the S-5 remains on the floor of the Atlantic off the coast of Cape May, NJ to this day.
Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.
