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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 | |
![]() | 64k | A group of A-type submarines at the Holland Submarine Co., basin, New Suffolk, Long Island, circa 1903. In the front line Plunger (SS-02) (later A-1), Porpoise (SS-07) (later A-6), and Adder (SS-03) (later A-2) along the breakwater (background) are Shark (SS-08) (later A-7) and Moccasin (SS-05) (later A-4). | US Navy photo # NH 45937 from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, courtesy of Joe Radigan, MACM, USN Ret. | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | 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. | Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Commander Theodore G. Ellyson, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98835-KN | |
![]() | 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. | Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Donation of Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Ralph Massee, USAF (Retired), via Captain Otto Finley, USN (Retired), 1986. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 101199-KN | |
![]() | 125k | Shark (SS-08) at left, and Porpoise (SS-07) on cradles, with crewmen posing on deck, circa 1905. Photograph by Enrique Muller, published on a contemporary postal card. Though the original postcard states that the view was taken at the Newport Training Station, Rhode Island, it was actually photographed at the New York Navy Yard. | Courtesy Charles L. Price, Jr., Alexandria, Virginia, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 70936 | |
![]() | 120k | Shark (SS-08) at left, and Porpoise (SS-07) on cradles, with crewmen posing on deck, circa 1905. Photograph by Enrique Muller, published on a contemporary postal card. | Courtesy Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 85772 | |
![]() | 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. | Courtesy Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 19-N-15-28-7 | |
![]() | 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 | |
![]() | 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. | Collection of Phillip H. Wilson. Donated by Mrs. Pauline M. Wilson, 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90170 | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | 84k | A-7 (SS-08) underway during diving exercises in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1912. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 90189 | |
![]() | 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 July 25, 1917. | US Navy photo courtesy of oneternalpatrol.com. | |
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