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ARTIFACT: This is a launching ribbon for the USS Finback SS-230 from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on August 25,194The USS Finback was ordered out to patrol during the great victory in the Battle of Midway. It returned to Pearl Harbor June 9 to prepare...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS Sailfish from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard. This ship was originally the USS Squalus SS-192, launched from Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on September 14th, 193It was sunk off Rye, NH and the...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS Sculpin (SS-191) from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on July 27, 193The Sculpin was sunk in 1944, and tragically some of her surviving crew was plucked from the sea by the Japanese and...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS Pollack (SS-180) from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on September 15, 193The Pollack received ten battle stars for World War II service. There are two typos on the ribbon: the launch date...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS Cachalot (SS-170) from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on October 19, 193The Cachalot did not share her name with any other United States Navy ship and was named for an old term for the...

ARTIFACT: This is a launching ribbon for the USS Crevalle SS-291 from Portsmouth Naval Yard on February 22, 1943 and bears the slogan Remember Pearl Harbor". In just the first war patrol, the USS Crevalle sank a passenger-cargo ship of almost 7,000 tons,...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS S-13 from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on October 20, 192The S-13 spent most of her time in the Panama Canal Zone and Caribbean. A 1940 movie references a fictional submarine by the same...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS S-12 from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on August 4, 192The S-12 served most of her duty in the Panama Canal region. There is a typo on the ribbon: the launch date is shown as April 4...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS L-8 from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on April 23, 191The L-8 was the first submarine ever built at a navy yard, and the first to be launched from Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard. L-8 did not...

ARTIFACT: This is a souvenir ribbon for the launching of the USS V-5 from the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard on December 17, 192The V5 was renamed the USS Narwhal SS-167 two years later. The Narwhal was one of the submarines in Pearl Harbor at the time of...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1967 plaque for the USS Jack SSN-605, a nuclear attack submarine. The ship was built at Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard in Kittery, Maine in 1960 and launched April 24, 196The plaque is wooden with a great brass playing card mounted...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare early 1960s painted resin plaque from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth, New Hampshire/Kittery, Maine) for the USS Abraham Lincoln SSN-60The Abraham Lincoln was launched May 14, 1960 and after testing in the United States,...