Talk:USS Squalus

Deleting the Wikipedia redirect command redirecting this article to the Sailfish article
This article stems from separating the history of the U.S. Navy submarine S-192 (Squalus) from Wikipedians being automatically redirected from this article to what is a different submarine, the USS Sailfish (S-191). Although the two submarines shared the same hull, the Navy considers them to be two separate submarines, with two different commissioning dates and two completely different histories. I am a contributor of Squalus artifacts to the Squalus Museum at the U.S. Naval Station, Portsmouth, Maine. My father was one of the Squalus sinking's survivors. As a Signalman Second Class he and another Signalman took turns in the sunken submarine to tap out Morse code signals (one tap for dots and two taps for dashes). The Squalus component of the Sailfish article doesn't recount the various stages of the Squalus' construction, it's eighteen previous sea trials, nor the reason for it's nineteenth trial dive. Nor does the Sailfish article describe the conditions in the submarine -- low level of oxygen, high levels of toxic chlorine gas combined with severely cold mind-numbing temperatures and lack of food for the two days that the submarine was on/in the mud on the ocean shore that made it absolutely necessary to rescue the survivors before they died from those conditions. It is the lack of detail in the Sailfish article of so many elements of the Squalus' construction, crewing, commissioning, its sea trials, it's sinking, and details of lowering and securing of the McCann diving to the Squalus and the ultimate rescue of the sunken submarine's survivors. And equally important was the work done by the survivors in assisting in the salvage efforts to the submarine after the Squalus was raised and brought back to Portsmouth. Many authentic and official references that can and will be used and cited in this new article, along with official photos and Wikimedia files. K. Kellogg-Smith (talk) 16:22, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:RS, WP:SYNTHESIS, WP:OR and WP:COI. All of those links should be carefully read before writing any articles on Wikipedia. You may not understand Wikipedia's mission, but writing a book on a ship is not the purpose of the website. Llammakey (talk) 12:44, 9 March 2019 (UTC)