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USS S-5 SS-110 (1/3)

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Shipwreck USS S-5

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1920, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
Specs:: ( 231 x 21 ft ) 876 displacement tons, 37 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday September 1, 1920
flooded during test dive - no casualties
Depth:: 165 ft

Shipwreck USS S-5 New York Times

Shipwreck USS S-5 — The conning tower

Shipwreck USS S-5

Shipwreck USS S-5 — The propellers: port top and starboard below

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Siphonophores

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Siphonophores are free-floating or swimming colonial hydroids. All siphonophores are predatory and should be treated with respect for their venomous sting. Some of the individual animals along the length of the colony provide tentacles for defense (dactylozooids) and food capture, while others may function as swimming bells (nectophores), aid flotation (pneumatophore), provide additional defense (bracts), digest prey (gastrozooids), or serve for reproductive functions (gonozooids.) Whether siphonophores are single individuals or colonies of well-integrated polymorphic hydroid and medusoid individuals is a matter of debate among specialists.

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