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Spikefish (SS-404) (AGSS-404)
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 | 963k | Mrs. Harvey W. Moore, Jr., sponsor for Spikefish (SS-404), welding the sponsor's christening plate to ship, 26 April 1944. She was the widow of Lieutenant Harvey Wilson Moore, Jr., KIA aboard the Pickerel (SS-177). | National Archives Identifier:12563144 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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 | 773k | Mrs. Harvey W. Moore, Jr., sponsor for Spikefish (SS-404), inspecting the sponsor's christening plate after welding, 26 April 1944. | National Archives Identifier:12563137 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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 | 816k | Mrs. Harvey W. Moore, Jr., sponsor for Spikefish (SS-404), launched at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. 26 April 1944. | National Archives Identifier:12563134 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov |
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 | 62k | Commemorative tag of Spikefish's (SS-404) launching, 26 April 1944 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. | Photo courtesy of Ron Toth, Jr. via Tom Kermen. | |
 | 16k | Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of Spikefish's (SS-404) launching, 26 April 1944. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 12k | Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of Spikefish's (SS-404) launching, 26 April 1944. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 72k | Spikefish (SS-404) underway during her first trials off the Atlantic Coast, summer 1944. | USN photo # 80-G-376776, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
 | 138k | Spikefish (SS-404) underway during her first trials off the Atlantic Coast, summer 1944. | USN photo # 80-G-376777, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
 | 31k | Very high altitude view of the Spikefish (SS-404), underway during her first trials off the Atlantic Coast, summer 1944. | USN photo # 80-G-376778, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
 | 47k | Very high altitude view of the Spikefish(SS-404) underway during her first trials off the Atlantic Coast, summer 1944. | USN photo # 80-G-376779, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
 | 654k | Commissioning day, 30 June 1944, finds the Spikefish (SS-404) off of Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard. | US National Archives photo # 80G-453355 from NARA, College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert. | |
 | 91k | Spikefish (SS-404) rescues Ens. Cullen (in raft, lower right), VC-83, off Ishigaki Jima, 7 June 1945. | Courtesy of Jerry Wintermute. | |
 | 275k | On the night of 13 August, Spikefish (SS-404) made radar contact with a surfaced submarine. After tracking it for about an hour, the submarine submerged and disappeared from Spikefish's scope. At 0007, contact was regained and the submarine was tracked until morning, when she was sighted on the surface. Her silhouette proved her to be Japanese. Spikefish fired six torpedoes. Two hit the target which sank in a cloud of smoke. The sole survivor who was taken prisoner identified the submarine as I-373, the last warship sunk in WWII. | Text courtesy of DANFS. Photo courtesy of John Hummel, USN (Retired). Photo insert (Type D1 submarine by Takeshi Yuki) courtesy of combinedfleet.com | |
 | 165k | Port side view of the Spikefish (SS-404), 1950's. | USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 19k | Commemorative postal cover and photo of the Spikefish (SS-404), 1952. | Courtesy of Jack Treutle (of blessed memory). | |
 | 276k | Sailors stand in the periscope shears of Spikefish (SS-404) on 5 June 1952 when she operated from New London making training cruises along the east coast from Bermuda to Nova Scotia. | Text courtesy of DANFS. USN photo # 442833 courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 687k | 4 photo PDF of Spikefish's (SS-404) history. | USN photos courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 412k | "On 18 March 1960 Spikefish (SS-404) became the first United States submarine to record 10,000 dives. I was Officer of the Deck that day when the photo was taken. We were south of Key West, having just completed our historical 10,000th dive and on that day became "The divingest Submarine in the World". LCDR. Lee Bert Findly was Commanding Officer. On that day dignitaries from the State of Florida, and local Key West City officials, including dependants of the officers and crew were on board when the dive was made. As OD, I became the Diving Officer for the 10,000th Dive. Note that there was no one in the shears nor on the bridge since the helicopter radioed that all hands were to clear the area while the photo was made. Spikefish then was a member of Squadron 12 operating out of Key West." | Photo & text i.d. courtesy of Mark M. Lenhart. USN photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. | |
 | 185k | Spikefish (SS-404) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa early 1960's. | Courtesy of Jay Jones EM3, Roberts (DE-749). | |
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