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NavSource Online: Submarine Photo Archive

Shark / A-7 (SS-8)

Adder Class Submarine Torpedo Boat: Laid down, 11 January 1901, as Shark, at Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ; Launched, 19 October 1901; Commissioned USS Shark, 19 September 1903; Decommissioned, 21 April 1908, at New York Navy Yard; Transported to Cavite Navy Yard, PI, and recommissioned there, 14 August 1909; Renamed A-7 (Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8), 17 November 1911; Decommissioned, 12 December 1919, at Cavite; Designated (SS-8), 17 July 1920; Struck from the Naval Register, 16 January 1922; Final Disposition, authorized for use as a target.

Specifications: Displacement; Surfaced, 107 t., Submerged, 123 t.; Length 63' 10"; Beam 11' 11"; Draft 10' 7"; Speed, Surfaced, 8 kts, Submerged, 7 kts; Depth Limit 150'; Complement, 1 Officer, 6 Enlisted; Armament, one 18" torpedo tube, 5 torpedoes; Propulsion, Otto Gas Engine Works gasoline engine, HP 160; Fuel Capacity 767 gal.; Electro Dynamic electric motors, HP 150; Battery Cells 60; single screw.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
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.