| Click On Image For Full Size Image | Size | Image Description | Contributed By |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 360k | Launching of the D-2 (SS-18) at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 16 June 1909. The tug Irving Fros is coming alongside to bring her dockside.
| NARA (National Archives and Record Administration) photo # 19-N-14891, courtesy of Daniel Dunham. Text courtesy of U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53773. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 91k | Port side view of the D-2 (SS-18) underway, probably during builder's trials, circa 1909.Note the striped poles near the submarine's bow and stern, possibly for evaluating trim angles while partially submerged. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, # NH 53774. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 140k | The internal helm stand of a voice tube on a D-class boat (SS-17/18/19). The watertight door to the torpedo room is seen to the right of the helm wheel. The helm wheel motor is attached via gearing to the transmission shaft, which ran aft to the rudder linkage. Directly above the helm wheel is a mirror into which the helmsman looked to obtain a view of the magnetic compass repeater above. Normal steering was by an electric switch that operated the motor. | The photo is on page 42 of "United States Submarines" by the Naval Submarine League. Photo submitted by Darryl L. Baker. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 116k | C-5 (SS-16);outboard; and D-2 (SS-18), by the dock, fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, # NH 99006. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | 53k | Navy submarines in port, circa 1909.
Possibly photographed at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, these submarines are (from left to right): C-3 (SS-14); either D-1 (SS-17) or D-3 (SS-19); C-5 (SS-16); C-2 (SS-13); C-4 (SS-15); and D-2 (SS-18). | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 53776. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
528k | SUBMARINE THAT TOOK PART IN GREAT RECORD SWIM | Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from Evening Bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, 22 July 1911, 3:30 EDITION, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.  1.25k |
In Wake of Craft That Cleaves the Depths Lie Many Dead Pioneers | Experiments That Led Up to Wonderful Feat of a Squadron of American Submarines the Other Day Have Cost Hundreds of Lives and Millions of Money. Embedded text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press. | PDF Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 2 July 1911, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.  136k | The Salmon (SS-19),Grayling (SS-18), Tarpon (SS-14), Octopus (SS-09), Bonita (SS-15) with the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) in the background on 28 October 1911.
| Digital ID # 2162989549_03ac37e6c6_o, LC-B2-2335-13. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |  136k | Bow of the tender Severn and her charges: Salmon (SS-19),Grayling (SS-18), Tarpon (SS-14), Octopus (SS-09), Bonita (SS-15) with the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) in the background on 28 October 1911.
| Digital ID # 2163790702_9293e5e616_o. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen. |  102k | Grayling (SS-18) at her moorings, between Nov. 1909 & Nov. 1911 prior to her name change to D-2. She appears to be testing the use of bow planes prior to the building of the E boats, (they were just D's but had bow planes). | Text i.d. courtesy of Ric Hedman. |
USN photo from The World Encyclopedia of Submarines, by John Parker, courtesy of Robert Hurst.  63k | D-2 (SS-18) underway, starboard side view, at the Naval Review at New York City, 4 October 1912. | US Navy photo from NARA # 19-N-13647, courtesy of Daniel Dunham. |
 249k | A D-class (SS-18) makes her way through the 1910's. | US Navy photo courtesy of Scott Koen & ussnewyork.com. |
 62k |
A number of boats home-ported in Key West had squadron numbers in the "2" over some number sequence. |
Identifiable boats are: (2nd from the left) D-2 (SS-18), (middle) D-3 (SS-19), (2nd from the right) E-2 (SS-25). Photo courtesy of The US Navy Submarine Force Museum via Ric Hedman. |
 859k |
SUBMARINE FLOTILLA REACHES NAVY YARD | Five of Uncle Sam's Smallest and Most Menacing Defenders, the Submarines D-1 (SS-17), D-2 (SS-18), D-3 (SS-19), E-1 (SS-24) and E-2 (SS-25), under the lee of the Mother Ship, the Monitor Tonopah (M-8), at the Washington Navy Yard. Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |
Photo from The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 18 July 1914, HOME EDITION, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.  377k | "U.S. Submarines awaiting Orders" | Halftone reproduction, printed on a postal card, of a photograph of five submarines nested together prior to World War I. The three "boats" at right are (from center to right): D-2 (SS-18); D-1 (SS-17); and D-3 (SS-19). The two at left are probably (in no particular order) E-1 (SS-24) and E-2 (SS-25). Photograph # NH 78926 from the U.S. Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Medical Service Corps), 1973. |
Photo courtesy of ussnewyork.com.  520k |
VANGUARD OF ATLANTIC FLEET FOR PRESIDNTIAL REVIEW IN NEW YORK | These vessels led the Atlantic fleet which arrived in New York for the big review by President Wilson. The picture shows the Tonopah (M-8) in the background, with the submarines E-1 (SS-24), E-2 (SS-25), D-2 (SS-18), D-1 (SS-17) and D-3 (SS-19) lying from left to right alongside the dock at 135th street. On recount of the activities of the submarines in the European War, these little under-the-water craft of the United States navy are coming in for a great deal of interest by the public. Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. | Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 08 May 1915, Night Extra, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.  804k |
Four American Submarines Ready for Naval Exhibition | From left to right:E-2 (SS-25), D-2 (SS-18), D-1 (SS-17) and D-3 (SS-19). Image and text provided by University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC. |
Photo from The Intelligencer. (Anderson, S.C.) 1915-1917, 14 May 1915, Image 8, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 01/27/13.  60k | D-2 (SS-18) photographed circa 1914, probably in the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 99160.
Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.
|
 91k | D-3 (SS-19), at left, and D-2 (SS-18) center at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 5 March 1919, with shipyard workmen on board. Note the ventilating fans on D-3's deck. A derrick barge is alongside D-2.
Among the four submarines visible in the background are L-1 (SS-40), L-4 (SS-43) and L-10 (SS-50).
A motorcycle is parked at the far left.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 51157.
|
 115k | Port side view of the D-2 (SS-18) underway, date and location unknown. | US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org. |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
View the Grayling / D-2 (SS-18)
DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
Not Applicable to this Vessel
Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
PigBoats.COM TM, a Historic Look at Submarines
| Back To The Main Photo Index | Back To the Submarine Index |
| Problems and site related matters, E-mail Webmaster |
| This page is created by Gary Priolo and maintained by Michael Mohl ©1996 - 2013, NavSource History All rights reserved. |