Floating derrick raising submarine S-48 sunk off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSMerritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, CT, Long Island Sound; USA, CT, Penfield Reef
1921-12-07
paper; cloth
overall: 8-3/8 x 11-1/4 in.; image: 7-1/8 x 9-1/2 in.
Gelatin silver print mounted on cloth, in album 1964.517 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; floating derrick MONARCH raising submarine S-48 sunk during builder's trials, off Penfield Reef, Fairfield County, CT, Long Island Sound, December 7, 1921; see related photographs 1964.517.29-31; see accession file for account of accident due to unsecured manhole in plate aft ballast tank.
1964.517.30