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Photo # NH 90189:  USS A-7 underway during diving exercises in Manila Bay, circa 1912

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USS Shark (Submarine # 8, later SS-8), 1903-1922.
Renamed A-7 in 1911 -- Views taken in 1908 and later


This page features views related to USS Shark (renamed A-7 in 1911) taken during or after 1908.

For more images of this submarine, see:

  • Shark (Submarine # 8, later SS-8), 1903-1922. Later renamed A-7.


    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 86963

    USS Shark
    (Submarine # 8)

    In the Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines, circa 1910. The gunboat Elcano is also in the drydock, in the right background.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1978.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90170

    USS Shark
    (Submarine # 8), later renamed A-7

    At the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa 1910-1911.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 440 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78670

    USS A-7
    (Submarine # 8), right

    At the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines, prior to World War I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 144KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 69710

    USS B-1
    (Submarine # 10), center
    and
    USS A-7 (Submarine # 8), right

    In Philippine waters, during the Nineteen-"Teens".

    Courtesy of Arthur B. Furnas, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 90189

    USS A-7
    (Submarine # 8)

    Underway during diving exercises in Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, circa 1912.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     

    For more images of this submarine, see:

  • Shark (Submarine # 8, later SS-8), 1903-1922. Later renamed A-7.


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


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