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.



3 comments:

Raven said...

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....

Raven said...

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.

Propnomicon said...

@ Raven

Well done, sir. Well done.

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