| USS Emmons
Underwater Photos Photos by John Chandler |
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| Dual 40mm points skyward against a unseen enemy. | A close look here will reveal the ammo racks around the gun shield. |
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| Port Side | Deck. |
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| After deckhouse on Port Side looking forward. Note the mine cutting paravanes still secured to the bulkhead!! Also, life raft rack overhead. | Closeup of Dual 40mm. |
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| Hull. | |
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| Looking forward just Aft of the After deckhouse on the Port Side. | No. 1 Gun revealing the ships current orientation, lying on her starboard side. |
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| Forward section of Emmons showing off her jackstaff, anchor, and Benson-Livermore signature bull-nose and hull shape. | Just aft of the anchor situates a deep scar in the port side of the bow. This hole apparently made by the high velocity armor piercing 5 inch fired into the Emmons by USS Ellyson preventing the Emmons from drifting in to the hands of the Japanese on Kouri Island less than 1200 meters away. |
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| Port propeller, shaft, and struts. | No 1 and 2 Guns loom in the shadows. |
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| The rudder and fantail were sheared off Emmons when she was hit astern by two Kamikazes just after 16:33 on the 6th of April, 1945. The fantail and rudder now lay about 35 yards on her starboard quarter laying in the sand in about 140 feet of water. |
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