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 | 82k | Waterfront and covered shipways, circa summer-fall 1927. V-4 (SM-1) and V-5 (SC-1) are under construction in inside shipways building. V-4 (later renamed Argonaut) is on the nearer way and appears to be nearly ready for her launching, which took place on 10 November 1927. V-5 (later renamed Narwhal) is in a much earlier stage of construction, having been laid down on 10 May 1927.
S-13 (SS-118) and another S-class submarine are alongside the waterfront, at left.
Note automobiles parked in the center and right. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 70910. Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970.
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 | 113k | Launching of the S-13 (SS-118), at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 20 October 1921.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98607.Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
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 | 99k | Captain Charles T. Owens, Captain of the Yard, turns the submarine S-13 (SS-118) over to her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Wilder D. Baker, during commissioning ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 14 July 1923.
| Official U.S. Navy Photograph,# NH 59966, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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 | 83k | "Uncle Sam's latest submarine S-13 (SS-118) just commissioned. Crew laughs at hoodoo supposedly attached to No. 13." (quoted from the original caption).
S-13 was commissioned on 14 July 1923.
The original print came from the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, 318-326 West 39th Street, New York, N.Y.
| Official U.S. Navy Photograph # NH 41901, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. |
 | 76k | S-13 (SS-118), in port, circa the 1920s.
| Official U.S. Navy Photograph # NH 41900, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. |
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S-13 (SS-118)
entering San Francisco Bay, California, during the 1920s.
| U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 103116. Donation of William F. Witty, from the collection of Gerald M. Chapentier, 2005.
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 | 71k | Bushnell (AS-5)
tending submarines at Gonaives, Haiti, 1924.
The two outboard submarines are S-10 (SS-115) and S-13(SS-118) .
| Official U.S. Navy Photograph # NH 74633, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN(Retired), 1971.
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Bushnell (AS-5) at Gonaives, Haiti, circa 1924 tending her charges:
S-11 (SS-116), S-12 (SS-117), S-10 (SS-115) & and S-13 (SS-118). |
US Navy photo courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. |
 | 21k | Commemorative postal cover on the occasion of S-13's (SS-118) decommission, 30 September 1936, at Philadelphia, PA. | Courtesy of Jack Tretule. |
 | 98k | S-13 (SS-118), crewmen relaxing and reading newspapers on the submarine's foredeck, at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 1933.
Photographed by Stahl.
The original print came from the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, Christopher and Washington Streets, New York, N.Y.
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Official U.S. Navy Photograph # NH 50243, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
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S-13 (SS-118), S-10 (SS-115) and S-12 (SS-117) moored at balboa Docks, Panama. Note the Grace lines liner (one of four sisters built in 1933: Santa Elena, Santa Paula, Santa Rosa or Santa Lucia) being assisted to dock by a Canal Zone tug (probably Tavernilla). Circa 1933-1935.
| US Navy photo courtesy of Dave Wright. Photo added 10/29/07. |
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S-13 (SS-118), shown about 1941, was one of four government S-boats; S-10 & 13 (SS-15 & 18), redesigned by Porsmouth Navy Yard to carry a torpedo tube aft. Structural detail has been included in this drawing to suggest the complexity of the C & R design, which made it extremely difficult to maintain. The V-1-class (SS-163-65) had similar complex structures. |
Drawing by Jim Christley. Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
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 | 116k | Port side view of the S-13 (SS-118) underway, date and place unknown. | US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org. |
