THE SUBMARINES OF KEY WEST
MAIN GATE AND JAP SUB
MAIN GATE AND JAP SUB
1938 Haramaki, HA 19, Japanese Type A (Mato) Midget Submarine
Check Out The The HA 19's History
Another link for the Japanese Midget Submarines
Midget Sub found near Pearl Harbor
A familiar Sight on the Key West Waterfront
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Submarine Rescue Ship
USS Penguin ASR-12
Factoid For those of you who
do not know,
the Fulton Class Sub Tenders included:
USS Fulton (AS-11)
USS Sperry (AS-12)
USS Bushnell (AS-15)
USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16)
USS Nereus (AS-17)
USS Orion (AS-18)
USS Proteus (AS-19)
USS Corporal CO Cdr J.H. Dolan cuts Welcome Home Cake
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On May 5th, 1956 The USS Corporal was steaming near Key West
when it received an emergency message from a US Navy Helicoptor
stating that it was having engine problems and was going down.
The Corporal immediately contacted the helo and offered it's deck
as a helipad. The craft landed successfully and the USS Corporal
brought the helo and the crew back to Key West high and dry.
It was the first successful landing of a helicoptor
on the deck of a submarine.
Several years later the Corporal picked up a
downed Navy flight crew and dropped them off at Bermuda
seems the aviators didn't take to the submarine lifestyle.
USS Corporal SS 346 and Helicopter
Site maintained by Sherman McGee
sherman.mcgee@prodigy.net
Tended
02 FEB, 2008
