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Submarine service has long exposed crews to deadly hazards beyond combat, including pressure-hull collapse, suffocation on the sea floor, collisions, and mechanical failures. Before the United States entered World War II and again after the war’s end, fatal U.S. submarine losses included USS F-4 off Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 25, 1915, with 21 men lost; USS F-1 off Point Loma, California, on December 17, 1917, with 19; USS H-1 off Baja California, Mexico, on March 12, 1920, with 4; USS O-5 in Limon Bay, Panama Canal Zone, on October 28, 1923, with 3; USS S-51 off Block Island, Rhode Island, on September 25, 1925, with 33; USS S-4 off Provincetown, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1927, with 40; USS Squalus off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on May 23, 1939, with 26; USS O-9 off Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire, on June 20, 1941, with 33; USS Cochino in the Greenland Sea north of Hammerfest, Norway, on August 26, 1949, with 1; USS Thresher 220 miles east of Boston on April 10, 1963, with 129; and USS Scorpion 400 miles south of the Azores on May 21, 1968, with 99. It is dedicated to submarines from all nations lost at sea.
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