The climax of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" features a massive raid on the seaside town by FBI agents and Federal troops. The attack includes a naval component, including a submarine that fires multiple torpedoes at the Deep One city off the coast. As I've
mentioned before, the dates given in the story almost certainly identify that submarine as the S-8 (SS-113).
Jason Seaman was kind enough to send over a link to a
fantastic repository of pictures of the S-8 at the NavSource naval historical site. I've browsed the page in the past, but it appears they've added a lot of new material including photographs and a schematic diagram.
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We all gaze at the Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
We're amazed at the Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
For she dived off Devil Reef
To torpe-edo Y'ha-nthlei,
But returned, to her relief,
Though cut and scarr-rr-rred and torn away.
We all gaze at the Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
We're amazed at the Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine
Innsmouth Submarine....
P.S. As a trivial demonstration of wikiality/truthiness, please see the name of that reef throughout Wikipedia, and then please do a ^Find-command on the word "reef" throughout the original Lovecraft story.
@ Raven
Well done, sir. Well done.
I'm glad I had some napkins handy to clean off my monitor.
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