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Photo # NH 53850:  USS H-3 being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, California, 6 April 1917

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1910s -- 1917

USS H-3 Salvage Efforts, April 1917


This page features views concerning the successful salvage of USS H-3 (Submarine # 30) in April 1917.

For more pictures of the salvage of USS H-3, see:

  • USS H-3 salvage attempts, January 1917; and
  • USS H-3 salvage efforts, February-March 1917.

    For views related to the stranding of this submarine in December 1916, see:

  • Stranding of USS H-3 and USS Milwaukee, and salvage of USS H-3, December 1916 - April 1917.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

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

    Photo #: NH 53859

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Placing runners in preparation for moving the submarine across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California. Taken on 2 April 1917 during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53848

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Placing runners to facilitate moving her across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California. Taken on 2 April 1917 during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53850

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California on 6 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber structure that supported the submarine during the move.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53849

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Moving the submarine off Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California at 250 feet per hour. Taken 6 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note what appears to be a camera at the right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53851

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California on 6 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note the log and timber structure that supported the submarine during the move.

    Courtesy of Captain Ray Spear, 1931.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53852

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California on 12 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note that H-3's rotating bow cap has been turned to expose one of her port torpedo tube muzzles.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53855

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Being moved across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California on 13 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber structure that supported the submarine during the move.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53854

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Seen from almost directly ahead on 13 April 1917, while being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note the wooden runners laid across the sand to provide a track for rolling the submarine.
    H-3's rotating bow cap has been turned to expose two of her torpedo tube muzzles.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53853

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Being moved across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California on 13 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
    Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber structure that supported the submarine during the move.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53856

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Seen from ahead while ready for launching into Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California, on 20 April 1917, after being moved across the peninsula from Samoa Beach by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
    Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53857

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Seen from off her port side, looking forward, as she was launched into Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California, on 20 April 1917, after being moved across the peninsula from Samoa Beach by the Mercer-Fraser Company.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53858

    USS H-3
    (Submarine # 30)

    Naval officers and civilians on board the submarine, just after she was relaunched into Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California, on 20 April 1917. H-3 had been moved across the peninsula from Samoa Beach by the Mercer-Fraser Company, of Eureka. The civilians present are probably connected to that firm.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     

    For more pictures of the salvage of USS H-3, see:

  • USS H-3 salvage attempts, January 1917; and
  • USS H-3 salvage efforts, February-March 1917.

    For views related to the stranding of this submarine in December 1916, see:

  • Stranding of USS H-3 and USS Milwaukee, and salvage of USS H-3, December 1916 - April 1917.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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