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	USS Squalus (SS-192): Sinking, Rescue of Survivors, and Salvage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		USS Squalus (SS-192): Sinking, Rescue of Survivors, and Salvage
		USS Squalus (SS-192): The Sinking, Rescue of Survivors, and Subsequent Salvage, 1939
		Lecture: Rescue and Salvage of U.S.S. Squalus by Commander Charles Momsen, USN
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq99-1.htm (223 words)

	For Those in Peril on the Sea - LostLiners.com
		The USS Squalus (SS-192) of the Sargo-class, built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in New Hampshire, was put to sea on March 1, 1939.
		Being one of the first of her class, recovering Squalus was of utmost importance to determine why she sank before others of her kind were put to sea.
		Squalus slowly sank back to the bottom, leaving a confusing mess of tangled ropes and cables on the surface, along with a lot of racked nerves.
	www.lostliners.com /Peril/squalus.html (3293 words)

	Squalus - JMS Naval Architects & Salvage Engineers
		U.S.S. The USS Squalus was a US Navy submarine built in 1939.
		During her final sea trial crash dive test the submarine experienced uncontrollable flooding and sank in 240 feet of water off the coast of New Hampshire with a crew of 59.
		After a three-month salvage effort by the US Navy, the Squalus was resurfaced, repaired and eventually served for the duration of World War II as the USS Sailfish.
	www.jmsnet.com /squalus.htm (414 words)

	Navy Department History of the USS Sailfish SS-192
		The keel of the ill-fated Squalus (later re-named Sailfish), was laid on 18 October 1937 at the U.S. Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
		She was commissioned USS Squalus SS192 on 1 March 1939, with Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin, USN, as first Commanding Officer.
		Squalus was completely fitted out by 12 May, and then commenced her testing period off Portsmouth.
	www.geocities.com /Baja/Dunes/4791/sailfish.html (542 words)

	Informat.io on Uss Sailfish (Ss 192)
		Her keel was laid down on 18 October 1937 by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, as Squalus, the only ship of the United States Navy named for the squalus, a type of dogfish.
		The Squalus sank during a test dive on 23 May but was recovered, renamed, and recommissioned a year later on 15 May 1940.
		The conning tower of USS Sailfish stands as a memorial to the lost crew of the USS Squalus at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
	www.quaest.io /?title=USS_Sailfish_(SS-192) (2650 words)

	All Hands - April 2000 - My Hero
		On his own, battling bureaucratic red tape and disbelieving naysayers, he first invented an escape lung for trapped crewmen to rise to the surface and next a rescue chamber that could be lowered into ocean depths.
		When the Squalus disaster occurred, he was developing a new breathing mixture of oxygen and helium so that deep-sea divers could descend farther than anyone thought possible.
		She was so swift that her crew had to hang on to overhead straps like subway riders, and from her has evolved the design of all our modern submarines.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /Pubs/allhands/apr00/pg16.htm (1275 words)

	Squalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The survivors of the USS Squalus were rescued by Charles "Swede" Momsen, who directed the use of a diving bell — an apparatus consisting of a container only open at the bottom and supplied with air compressed through a hose.
		The Squalus, which was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was refurbished and re-christened the USS Sailfish.
		The story of the USS Squalus was told in the book "The Terrible Hours," which was written by Peter Maas in 1999.
	www.ussthreadfin.com /Squalus.html (904 words)

	Submarine USS O-9 (SS-70)
		USS O-9 departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 2 November 1918 for European waters; but the termination of World War I hostilities on 11 November 1918 brought the twenty-submarine group, of which USS O-9 was a unit, back to the United States before they reached the Azores.
		In a sensational rescue, 33 of the Squalus' officers and men were saved by a new diving bell, but that shining new craft rested in only 240 feet of water and was equipped to handle the diving bell on a special escape hatch.
		When the Squalus was being towed back to Portsmouth after being raised late in the summer of 1939, she grounded frequently, even though lifted well off the bottom by huge pontoons.
	ussubvetsofworldwarii.org /O-9.html (2278 words)

	squalus
		In May 1939, the USS Squalus (pronounced "skwaylus") was one of the U.S. Navy's newest S-type submarines.
		Within five minutes, the Squalus rested on the bottom in 242 feet of water with her three after compartments flooded and 26 other crew dead.
		Later converted to a submarine rescue and salvage ship, she had been used to raise the USS S-51 sunk off Block Island in 132 feet of water in September 1925 and in recovering the USS S-4 from 104 feet of water in December 1927.
	www.cisatlantic.com /trimix/other/squalus.htm (5361 words)

	As I Please -- The Making of the Squalus Movie
		Squalus sank mysteriously in 240 feet of cold Atlantic water on a test dive off the Isles of Shoals.
		Billed as the only successful submarine rescue, the Squalus story centers on Swede Momsen, an iconoclastic Navy engineer who designed the diving suits, escape hatch and diving bell that facilitated the rescue of all 33 surviving crewmen.
		The Navy brass and the Squalus survivors who saw an advance screening of the film in Washington DC agreed.
	www.seacoastnh.com /arts/please060201.html (1536 words)

	USS Squalus
		The name Squalus acanthias belongs to the "spiny dogfish," a small shark found in schools near the shore, and is common to both coasts of the North Atlantic.
		Squalus (SS-192) was laid down on 18 October 1937 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth N.H.; launched on 14 September 1938, sponsored by Mrs.
		During this preparatory period, the 32 survivors below spent a cold night trapped inside Squalus and began to suffer from the effects of chlorine gas released from the battery compartment.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s/squalus.htm (591 words)

	USS Squalus
		USS Squalus (SS-192) was lost on 23-May-1939 with a loss of 26 officers
		In the shimmering light the number "192" painted in white under the bow identifies the USS SQUALUS (SS-192), a newcomer in the ocean's depths.
		The light is high and small craft have shuttled endlessly in and out of the range of vision until a larger, more sturdy prow cleaves a path for a throbbing hill whose purposeful approach gives mute evidence of its race from a distant base.
	www.csp.navy.mil /othboats/squalus.htm (1545 words)

	SS-192, U.S.S. Squalus/Sailfish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		After securing a cable to Squalus, the McCann rescue chamber—a large diving bell that could be secured to the escape hatch in the deck over the forward torpedo room, and was named after then Lieutenant-Commander Allan McCann, who supervised final development after Momsen was reassigned to training duties—was used to bring up the survivors.
		Squalus was raised in the summer of 1939, and after repair was recommissioned as U.S.S. Sailfish, reportedly at the suggestion of President Roosevelt.
		One result of the Squalus sinking was redesigning the diving controls, so that the main induction and negative tank flood levers could be easily distinquished by touch even in total darkness.
	www.fleetsubmarine.com /ss-192.html (693 words)

	USS SAILFISH --- I Met a WW II Vet from this Submarine Today [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In an earlier life it was the Squalus, which went down on its maiden voyage off the Atlantic coast.
		When the Squalus went down, 26 men were lost but 33 were saved in an historic rescue that would later become a movie.
		The USS Sculpin was one of the first ships on the scene when the USS Squalus went down.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b78d316214e.htm (981 words)

	USS Squalus SS 192 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		USS Squalus SS 192 during construction January 1938.
		USS Squalus SS 192 after launch during fitting out.
		USS Squalus SS 192 after launch during fitting out phase, fall 1938.
	www.rddesigns.com /subs/192.html (965 words)

	Blow All Ballast; The sinking and rescue and raising of the USS Squalus
		At the Bikini atoll in 1946, "Punchy" was a GMC Master Diver aboard the USS Widgeon ASR-1.
		I think the Russians had a chance to outdo the Squalus salvage but for resons not explained, they left their men to die at the bottom of the North Sea.
		USS Sailfish emerges from the remains of Squalus
	elticitl0.tripod.com /squalusalvage.htm (276 words)

	FDR aboard USS Tuscaloosa CA-37 - WWII heavy cruiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		After a series of test dives, the Squalus had sunk on 12 May because of flooding in her aft engine room.
		Squalus was refloated by using cables passed beneath her, and was towed to Portsmouth on 13 September.
		Nine months later she was recommissioned as USS Sailfish, serving through most of the war in the Pacific.
	home.earthlink.net /~keylimepie/fdr.htm (571 words)

	WWII Salmon and Sargo Class Submarines in World War II Pacific Theater
		The USS Stingray (SS-186) was fitted with two additional tubes on the external part of the pressure hull giving it ten.
		The sinking of the Squalus was nearly repeated with the USS Sturgeon and the USS Snapper but fortunately without any fatalities.
		The USS Stingray has the distinction of holding the record for running the most patrols of any US sub during the war (16).
	www.valoratsea.com /Salmon1.htm (377 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Local News: Squalus survivor previews movie
		McLees said he was then 25 and recently assigned to the USS Squalus as an electrician.
		The Squalus sank about 250 feet to the ocean floor, and those who survived remained inside the submarine for approximately 27 grueling hours.
		The Squalus survivors fired emergency flares from underwater and released a marker buoy with a radio inside, hoping someone would rescue them.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2001news/5_17c.htm (559 words)

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		USS Squalus, which sank in May 1939 due to a failure of her main induction valve in her after engine room during a diving test.
		Squalus were later rescued using the newly developed Momsen rescue bell.
		Squalus was decommissioned and the ship was raised, repaired and then recommissioned in 1940 as the
	www.steelnavy.com /SailfishRSmith.htm (285 words)

	GOseacoast - Your Clickable Guide to Seacoast New Hampshire and South Coast Maine.
		The story of the Squalus rescue is one of the most dramatic in Seacoast history and the only successful submarine rescue in naval history.
		The Squalus was eventually floated, rebuilt and recommissioned as the USS Sailfish.
		In 2001 the story of the Squalus was adapted from a book by Peter Maas into the TV movie “Submerged”, filmed in Malta.
	www.goseacoast.com /print.ihtml?lid=170&catID=74 (201 words)

	Book Review: The Terrible Hours - The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Later, as Commanding Officer of USS S-1 (SS-105), he found the wreck of the USS S-51 (SS-162), lost with 33 men in a collision with the steamer City of Rome east of Long Island Sound in 1925.
		Although 26 men lost their lives in the initial flooding, the McCann submarine rescue chamber - named by the Navy for one of Momsen's co-developers in a fit of bureaucratic spite - retrieved all the survivors from the hulk in the first deep submarine rescue ever.
		Momsen finished the war as Captain of the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57), achieved postwar promotion to flag rank, and later became the Assistant CNO for Undersea Warfare in the Pentagon.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_6/bookreview.htm (834 words)

	1014-012 WW2 SS192 USS SQUALUS Launch Button (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		ITEM NOTES: Courtesy of www.hazegray.org : The first Sailfish (SS-192), a diesel-powered attack submarine, was laid down on 18 October 1937 as Squalus by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth N.H., launched on 14 September 1938, sponsored by Mrs.
		On 12 May, Squalus began a series of test dives off Portsmouth.
		After successfully completing 18 dives she went down again off the Isle of Shoals on the morning of 23 May. Failure of the main induction valve caused the flooding of her after engine room, and the submarine sank stern first to the bottom in 60 fathoms of water.
	www.flyingtigerantiques.com /item_templates/1014_012.html (136 words)

	On Eternal Patrol - Individual US Submarine Links
		"U.S.S. Nautilus SSN 571", is that which the site itself uses.
		Submarines with non-sequential hull numbers (such as the modern Seawolf Class) are placed in the general chronological order by date of their commissioning.
		USS Clamagore SS 343 (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina)
	www.oneternalpatrol.com /links-boats.htm (381 words)

	ACU News by Alumni
		By David S. Sowell III, M.D. Something was terribly wrong with the United States Navy Submarine USS Squalus as it descended into the North Atlantic off Portsmouth, New Hampshire on May 23, 1939 for a practice dive.
		The Squalus incident was finally re-introduced to the nation by the book: The Terrible Hours-The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History by Peter Maas and the NBC movie Submerged, based on Maas's book.
		Following the rescue of the surviving crew and the salvage of the Squalus, it was renamed the USS Sailfish and returned to duty.
	www.acu.edu /events/news/sowell.html (1044 words)

	Charles Bowers Momsen, Vice Admiral, United States Navy
		He was in charge of the rescue of the 33 crewmen who survived the sinking of the Squalus in May, 1939 in 240 feet of water off Muscle Shoals, New Hampshire.
		After assuming command of the cargo ship USS Sirius (AK-15) in September 1939 he remained there until October 1941 when he was detached for duty in the Fourteenth Naval District, Pearl Harbor, T.
		Momsen was rewarded with command of the USS South Dakota, one of the Navy's newest battleships, in the Pacific.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /cbmomsen.htm (2625 words)

	USS Squalus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		USS Squalus submarine off the New Hampshire coast
		The destroyer USS Momsen is to be commissioned in 2002, named after
		One of the last survivors of the sinking of the submarine USS Squalus (#192), May 23, 1939.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/ships/usssqualus/index.htm (330 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine USS Sailfish of the Sargo class
		USS Sailfish after a refit at Mare Island Navy Yard 13 April 1943.
		Commissioned as USS Squalus on 1 March 1939.
		Recommissioned as USS Sailfish on 15 May 1940.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/2928.html (777 words)

	Seacoast NH Maritime Heritage Quiz
		Twenty-three men drowned on May 23, but 33 were saved by a diving bell that made four dramatic trips to the trapped sub.
		Amazingly, the sub was recovered, returned to dry-dock and re-commissioned as the USS Sailfish in 1940 with some of the original crew returning.
		This vessel was the vanguard of a new class of deep-diving nuclear attack submarines designed and built at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
	www.seacoastnh.com /ussconstitution/quiz.html (1217 words)

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