The U.S. Navy released photographs Monday of the two anchors retrieved from the Ehime Maru, the Japanese fisheries training ship that sank off Hawaii in February after being struck by a U.S. submarine.

Two anchors salvaged recently from the Ehime Maru are shown in a photo released by the U.S. Navy.

The anchors have been stored in the U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor since the salvage vessel Rockwater 2 returned to port Saturday.

The vessel is trying to recover the remains of nine people missing from the Ehime Maru, believed to be entombed within the wreckage, navy officials said.

The starboard anchor chain was cut off from the Ehime Maru's forecastle Sept. 14 and the port anchor chain 10 days later.

They will be handed over to Japan at a date yet to be announced.

The submarine Greeneville was conducting an emergency-surfacing maneuver for a group of civilian visitors when it struck and sank the Ehime Maru on Feb. 9.