R-24

The buoyant stern and ventral control surfaces was one of the design features pioneered by Lake that the Navy actually liked. It made the boat ride better in the sea, and it put the control surfaces deeper in the water and thus more effective while surfaced.
Another boat, likely R-22 or R-27 is on the other set of ways in the background. That boat would be launched one month later on September 23.
Photo NH 108254 courtesy of NHHC.

There are a number of decommissioned ships moored to the right. The ship painted white with a red stripe is the hospital ship USS Solace (AH-2) the ship to her immediate right is the destroyer Mayrant (DD-31) and the second ship from the right is the destroyer Drayton (DD-23).
U.S. Navy photo.
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