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208k | Bottle & presentation case from the launch of the O-11 (SS-72) , 29 October 1917. | Photo courtesy of George K. Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. | |
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293k | Inscription of the presentation case from the launch of the O-11 (SS-72) , 29 October 1917. | Photo courtesy of George K. Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. | |
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154k | The letter from the Secretary of the Navy, Joesephus Daniels to Mrs. Baruch on the occasion of the christening of the O-11 (SS-72), 1 November 1917. | Photo courtesy of George K. Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. | |
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86k | Sponsor photos of the O-11 (SS-72) are hard to come by (perhaps non-existent). The O-11 was launched by Mrs. Annie Griffen Baruch. Her daughter Miss Belle W. Baruch sponsored the launching of the Pargo (SS-264) 25 years later. The sponsor's party appear from left to right: Mrs. L. Y. Spear, R. (Rene) Samstag, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch & Miss Belle W. Baruch, on 24 January 1943 at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT. |
Electric Boat photo courtesy of George K. Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. | |
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113k | O-11 (SS-72) fitting out at the Lake Torpedo Boat Company shipyard, Bridgeport, Connecticut on 8 July 1918. Note the Lake T.B. Co. logo in the lower right. | U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph # NH 44549 submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
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995k | Bow view of the O-11 (SS-72), R-21 (SS-98), R-22 (SS-99), R-24 (SS-101) & R-27 (SS-104) at the Lake Torpedo Boat Company shipyard, Bridgeport, Connecticut on 7 October 1918. | US National Archives photo # 19 lc 1154 from NARA, College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert. | |
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60k | O-11 (SS-72), at anchor, circa 1918-24. | USN photo courtesy of Ric Hedman / rddesign@rddesigns.com. | |
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238k | From inboard to outboard: O-11 (SS-72), O-13 (SS-74), O-14 (SS-75), O-15 (SS-76), O-16 (SS-77), and O-12 (SS-73), at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, circa 1918-24. | USN photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
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81k | O boats possibly in Phila. PA circa 1924: From inboard to outboard: unidentified O boat, O-11 (SS-72), O-12 (SS-73), O-16 (SS-77) & O-14 (SS-75). | USN photo submitted by Charles Worcester. |
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