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Mid Section, Howell Torpedo No. 24, #2013-001-002

Claudia Chemello, a contractor hired by NHHC) Underwater Archeology Branch, shows a diagram of the Howell torpedo's flywheel, used to drive the torpedo's propellers, next to the middle body as an archaeologists sifts through sediment recovered from the midsection of the torpedo by the flywheel.
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Title: 140131-N-CS953-001
Description: WASHINGTON (Jan. 31, 2014) Claudia Chemello, a contractor hired by NHHC) Underwater Archeology Branch, shows a diagram of the Howell torpedo's flywheel, used to drive the torpedo's propellers. Underwater Archeology along with contractors from Terra Mare Conservation, opened the midsection of the torpedo to find more than 140 pounds of sediment inside. The sediment will help NHHC tell the story of the torpedo, that was lost from the Iowa (BB 4) during a training mission and found by a dolphin in the U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program off the coast of San Diego last year. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Tim Comerford/Released)
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