Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Innsmouth Submarine

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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3 comments:

  1. RavenJanuary 17, 2012 at 12:09 PM

    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....

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  2. RavenJanuary 17, 2012 at 1:42 PM

    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.

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  3. PropnomiconJanuary 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM

    @ Raven

    Well done, sir. Well done.

    I'm glad I had some napkins handy to clean off my monitor.

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