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730k | Mrs Archibald McNeil Jr., who christened at Bridgeport the S-16 (SS-121), largest submarine ever built in the United States. This mammoth undersea craft has a cruising radius sufficient to go to Japan and back without refueling. | Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 04 January 1920, Image 65, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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1.24k | NEW AMERICAN SUBMARINE LAUNCHED AT BRIDGEPORT. | Image and text provided by Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, LA. Photo from Abbeville Progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 10 January 1920, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. PDF added 08/17/11. |
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170k | Submarine S-16 (SS-121), the last word in submersibles, was added to the US Navy recently at Bridgeport Conn. Without fueling she could travel to Japan and return, according to cruising tests made. | Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 17 January 1920, Final, Image 22, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. |
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146k | All dressed up at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT., 23 December 1919, S-16 (SS-121) lies at dock after launching. | US Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org. | |
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70k | S-14 (SS-119),
alongside Beaver (AS-5)
at the Panama Canal Zone, circa the 1920s. S-16 (SS-121) is inboard of S-14.
| Courtesy of the USS Nautilus Museum, Groton, Connecticut, 1991. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 99184. | |
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139k | S-16 (SS-121) & next to her is possibly the S-50 (SS-161) with another unknown S-boat and 4 unidentified R-boats alongside their tender, Shawmut (CM-4) probably in the Panama Canal area, circa 1924. | US Navy photo # 80-G-1024884, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. | |
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67k | These O type and S type submarines which were used during the World War have since been decommissioned and are now laid up in the Phila. Navy Yard. The peaceful surroundings are quite a contrast to those of their active war days. They are pictured here on 17 July 1936. The S-10 (SS-115) was decommissioned on the day this photo was taken at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA. and laid up in the Reserve Fleet. Pictured also are any of the following boats that were at the PNY during this time. The O boats:O-1 (SS-62),O-2 (SS-63), O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67), O-7 (SS-68), O-8 (SS-69), O-9 (SS-70),O-10 (SS-71). The S boats: S-6 (SS-111), S-7 (SS-112),S-8 (SS-113), S-9 (SS-114),S-11 (SS-116), S-12 (SS-117),S-13 (SS-118), S-14 (SS-119),S-15 (SS-120),S-16 (SS-121),S-17 (SS-122) & S-48 (SS-159). |
Photo & text courtesy of A.P. Wire courtesy of philly.com. | |
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34k | A Pen and ink drawing with wash, by the artist Vernon Howe Bailey, entitled "Deck Gun (Preparing for Sea),"
depicts an S-boat at dock, possibly the
S-16 (SS-121) in 1941. | Deck Gun (Preparing for Sea) Vernon Howe Bailey #30 Pen and ink drawing with wash, 1941 Courtesy of the USNHC, painting # 88-165-AD. |
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