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USS Squalus (SS-192)

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.

Her sister ship, Scullpin (SS-191), located the stricken ship and established communications. The newly developed McCann rescue chamber, a revised version of the Momsen diving bell, was used in rescu- ing the 33 survivors, but 26 men were trapped and lost in the flooded after portion of the ship.

FC3 James Andrew Aitken

EM1 John James Batick

FN Joshua Casey

MMC John Allan Chesnutt

EM2 Robert Lyle Coffey

MM2 Elvin Leon Deal

EM3 Lionel Hugh Fletcher

MMC Kenneth Ross Garrison

TM1 Robert Franklin Gibbs

FN John Plesent Hathaway

MM1 Eugene Arthur Hoffman

SN Alexander Biggs Keegan

SA John Joseph Marino

EM2 Huie King McAfee

ENS J.H. Patterson

TM2 Alfred Charles Priester

MM1 Frank Henry Schulte

EM1 Bascom Slemp Scyphers

TM1 Sherman Luther Shirley

Civilian Don Smith

MM1 Jack John Strong

MM1 John Laurise Thomala

SC3 Robert Preson Thompson

RM3 Marion Lawrence Ward

FA Robert Ross Weld

Civilian Charles M. Wood