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A Convivial Social Feed

Did you remember to put your clocks back?🍂

Allll your clocks back?!🤔⏰️🕛🕰😳

Here, Carol Cook stands above a table of wall clocks at the former Sherburne School on Sherburne Road, Portsmouth, NH. Cook was helping to prepare the school for the arrival of the Learning Skills Academy.

Established in 1987, the Portsmouth Press was a local newspaper, a subsidiary of Ottaway Newspapers Inc., which began with a morning edition twice a week. Its final edition was Sept 16, 1993.

📸 Photographer Jane Tyska @tyskagram captured this image, which was published on August 6, 1992.

[Given in memory of Jay Smith, former Press Room owner and journalist, Portsmouth Press Photograph Collection, P0031_1257]

#daylightsavings #clocks #sherburneschool #JaneTyska #PortsmouthPress #90s #collectpreserveshare📖 #localhistory #PortsmouthNH #nh #Maine #seacoast❤
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On Sept. 13, 1939, the nose of the USS Squalus (SS-192) surfaced during the recovery efforts of the ill-fated submarine, which had sunk while on its 19th test dive off the Isles of Shoals nearly four months ago on May 23, 1939. #onthisday

According to the US Navy, that May, a failure of its main induction valve resulted in the immediate flooding of the aft torpedo room, both engine rooms, and the crew`s quarters, killing 26 men. Surviving crewmen acted quickly sealing off other compartments as the submarine sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean--a depth of 243 feet. In what was called the "Greatest Submarine Rescue in History," 33 men were then saved; however, the bodies of the other crew members and the submarine remained on the ocean floor.

After 114 days and 628 dives, the salvage and recovery efforts were successful. According to the Portsmouth Herald, thousands of people watched from the shorelines of New Castle & Kittery as the Squalus was towed up the Piscataqua River toward the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, accompanied by a procession of military and civilian vessels.

"The ship having been brought alongside the coal pocket," reported the Herald, "only its conning tower above the surface. The slow-moving tower, en route to the yard, marked the steel tomb of the Squalus victims whose bodies, officials said, will be removed as soon as the after compartments are opened."

Named after a shark, the Squalus had been constructed at the Shipyard and launched there in September 1938. After its recovery, the submarine was overhauled and recommissioned as the USS Sailfish (SS-192) on May 15, 1940, and went safely through World War II.

Decommissioned in October 1945 and sold for scrap in 1948, the Sailfish conning tower was preserved and returned to the Shipyard as a memorial to the lost crew of the Squalus and to the service of the Sailfish during WWII.

👉 You can find more information and photographs of the Squalus and its rescue and recovery efforts in our online catalog.🔎

[Photograph attributed to Jimmy Jones of the old Boston Post, PS2847]

#squalus #usnavy #portsmouthnavalshipyard #kitterymaine #portsmouthnh #collectpreserveshare📖
#localhistory #otd
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