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Photo # NH 98836:  USS A-6 at the Cavite Navy Yard, circa 1912

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USS Porpoise (Submarine # 7, later SS-7), 1903-1922.
Renamed A-6 in 1911 -- Views taken in 1908 and later


This page features views related to USS Porpoise (renamed A-6 in 1911) taken during or after 1908.

For more images of this submarine, see:

  • Porpoise (Submarine # 7, later SS-7), 1903-1922. Later renamed A-6.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 19-N-15-28-7

    New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York


    Submarines Shark (Submarine # 8), Plunger (Submarine # 2) and Porpoise (Submarine # 7) housed over and covered with snow, in one of the Navy Yard's drydocks, 25 January 1908.

    Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 42644

    USS Porpoise
    (Submarine # 7)
    and
    USS Shark (Submarine # 8)

    On board the collier Caesar for transportation to the Philippine Islands, April 1908.
    Halftone reproduction, published in the book "Army & Navy", page 753.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78275

    USS Caesar
    (1898-1922)

    At anchor in 1908-1909, while transporting submarines to the Philippine Islands.
    The "boats" are either Porpoise (Submarine # 7) and Shark (Submarine # 8), which were embarked on Caesar in April-July 1908, or Adder (Submarine # 3) and Moccasin (Submarine # 5), which were on board in July-October 1909.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90169

    USS Adder
    (Submarine # 3)

    At the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa 1910-1911.
    USS Porpoise (Submarine # 7) is in the left background.
    Note the man inside Adder's cowl ventilator.

    Collection of Phillip H. Wilson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98836

    USS A-6
    (Submarine # 7), ex-USS Porpoise

    At the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, circa 1912.
    A Bainbridge class destroyer is in the background.

    Collection of Phillip H. Wilson. Donated by Mrs. Pauline M. Wilson, 1979.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90192

    USS A-6
    (Submarine # 7), ex-USS Porpoise

    Underway during an endurance run in Philippine waters, circa 1912.

    Collection of Phillip H. Wilson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90185

    Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines


    Submarines A-6 (Submarine # 7), A-4 (Submarine # 5) and A-2 (Submarine # 3) in the Dewey Drydock, circa 1912.
    The bow of their tender, USS Mohican, is at left, with an anchor suspended from her starboard cathead.

    Collection of Phillip H. Wilson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 460 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90181

    Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines


    Submarines and their tender, USS Mohican, in the drydock, circa 1912.
    The submarines are (from left to right):
    USS A-2 (Submarine # 3), ex-Adder;
    USS A-4 (Submarine # 5), ex-Moccasin; and
    USS A-6 (Submarine # 7), ex-Porpoise.

    Collection of Phillip H. Wilson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 450 x 765 pixels

     

    For more images of this submarine, see:

  • Porpoise (Submarine # 7, later SS-7), 1903-1922. Later renamed A-6.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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