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 | 70k | Plunger (SS-02) and Shark (SS-08) moored, 1902. Photo is labeled U.S.S.M.B. Plunger, possibly a Holland Co. photo. | US National Archives photo # 19-N-15-25, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 124k | Shark (SS-08) with other submarine torpedo boats of her class, while fitting out in 1902, probably at New Suffolk, Long Island, New York. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 41903 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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107k | Moccasin (SS-5) Electric Boat Company/Holland Torpedo Boat Company facility, New Suffolk, Long Island, New York. Submarines in the facility basin, circa 1903. Boats in the front group are (from left to right): Plunger (SS-2); Porpoise (SS-7); and Adder (SS-3). In the background, by the breakwater are (left-right): Shark (SS-8) and Moccasin (SS-5). Photographed by Legendre & Levick, New York. |
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 45937. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 64k | Shark (SS-08) underway with members of her crew on deck, circa 1903-1907. | Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # 19-N-6787 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 108k | A-7 Shark (SS-08) with her crew on deck, while moored between a torpedo boat (at left) and another submarine, circa 1903-1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 85827 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 514k | Tank layout of the Adder class submarine by Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department August 1904. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 138k | Shark (SS-08) at left, and Porpoise (SS-07) on cradles at the New York Navy Yard, circa 1905. Photograph by Enrique Muller, published on a contemporary postal card by the American Colortype Company. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98835-KN courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Commander Theodore G. Ellyson, USN. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 114k | Shark (SS-08) at left, and Porpoise (SS-07) on cradles at the New York Navy Yard, circa 1905. Photograph by Enrique Muller, published on a contemporary postal card by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco, California. It was mailed on 8 July 1908 as an advertisement for Alfred S. Witter, photographer with offices at Seattle, Waterville and Bridgeport, Washington. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101199-KN courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Donation of Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Ralph Massee, USAF (Retired), via Captain Otto Finley, USN (Retired), 1986. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1.26m | LIEUTENANT SHAPLEIGH, OF THE SHARK (SS-08), ONE OF THE FOREMOST SUBMARINE COMMANDANTS OF THE AMERICAN NAVY, AND HIS MASCOT, MING. This is probably the champion deep-diving terrier of the world. He accompanies his master below the surface on all occasions. |
Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 29 April 1906, Image 19, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 102k | Loaded on board the collier Caesar (AC-16), Shark (SS-7) and her sistership, Porpoise (SS-8), comprised the auxiliary's deck cargo as she proceeded, via Suez, for the Philippine Islands. Photo taken at the New York Navy Yard in April 1908. | Photo courtesy of Roy C. Thomas, text courtesy of DANFS. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 145k | New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York: Submarines Shark (SS-08), Plunger (SS-02) and Porpoise (SS-07) housed over and covered with snow, in one of the Navy Yard's drydocks, 25 January 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 19-N-15-28-7, courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1977. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 2.97k | COLLIER AND TWO SUBMARINES BEING PREPARED AT THE NAVY YARD FOR TRIP TO THE PACIFIC.SUBMARINES FOR PACIFIC The Collier Caesar (AC-16) Will Carry Two of Them on Long Trip. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 15 March 1908, Image 58, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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 | 90k | Submarines Shark (SS-08), and Porpoise (SS-07) on board the collier Caesar (AC-16) for transportation to the Philippine Islands, April 1908. Halftone reproduction, published in the book "Army & Navy", page 753. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 42644 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 81k | Caesar (AC-16) at anchor in 1908-1909, while transporting submarines to the Philippine Islands. The "boats" are either submarines Shark (SS-08), and Porpoise (SS-07) which were embarked on Caesar (AC-16) in April-July 1908, or Adder (SS-03) and Moccasin (SS-05), which were on board in July-October 1909. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 78275 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4.29m | PREDICT GREAT FUTURE FOR TINY SEA WASPS Tests Lead Naval Experts to Believe Submarines Will Be Part of Equipment of All Battleships. It is only a question of a very few years when one of those nerve testing little ship assassins known as submarines, will be a part of the equipment of every battleship, is the consensus of opinion among naval experts. The launching of the submarine Shark (SS-08) at Manila. Upper—Ready to "let go." Lower—As the Shark struck the water. Note; The caption says English vessel, but the American flag is flying from the flagstaff. |
Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA. & University of California, Riverside. Photo & text by The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 28 January 1909, Image 6, & Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 03 January 1909, Image 46, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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63k | Lt. Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle was the commanding officer of the Shark (SS-7) from 1908 to 1909. | U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. Photo added 04/29/11. |
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 | 87k | Ensign Henry Martin Jensen was Commanding the First Submarine Division Asiatic Torpedo Fleet aboard the submarine Shark (SS-08) in 1910. | Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress via Bill Gonyo.
 115k | Shark (SS-08) in the Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines, circa 1910. The gunboat Elcano is also in the drydock, in the right background.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 86963. |
 144k | Shark (SS-08) at the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa 1910-1911.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90170, Collection of Phillip H. Wilson. Donated by Mrs. Pauline M. Wilson, 1979. |
 144k | Shark (SS-08), right at the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, prior to World War I.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 78670. |
 80k | A-7 (ex-Shark) (SS-08) right B-1,(ex-Viper) (SS-10), center in Philippine waters, during the Nineteen-"Teens". Both show the submarine bells used for underwater communication ( B-1's is on her foredeck, A-7's abaft her conning tower). Note how rudimentary their bridges were.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 69710. Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
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 84k | A-7 (SS-08) underway during diving exercises in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1912. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90189. |
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Blast aboard A-7 kills 5 at Cavite, Philippine Islands, loses almost whole crew. |
The boat in the photo is actually the F-1 (SS-20). Apparently, the Philadelphia Evening Ledger could not find a good photo of the A-7 so they made a substitution. Image provided by: Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. |
Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 25 July 1917, Night Extra, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Dave Johnston (USNR).  21k | Arnold Marcus, Lieutenant, Junior Grade (Commanding Officer) of the A-7 (SS-08) when he died as a result of injuries suffered the previous day in a gasoline explosion and fire aboard A-7 on 25 July 1917. | US Navy photo courtesy of oneternalpatrol.com. |
 98k | A-7 (SS-08) underway, date and location unknown.
| USN photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.
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