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Photo # NH 85931:  USS G-2's conning tower and periscopes, circa 1915

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USS G-2 (Submarine # 27), 1915-1919 -- Part II


This page features additional views of USS G-2 (Submarine # 27).

For other pictures of this submarine, see:

  • USS G-2 (Submarine # 27), 1915-1919.


    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 #: NH 101547

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Underway, circa 1915, probably photographed from USS Fulton (Submarine Tender # 1). The original print includes the following comment: "at sea on trip between Norfolk Va and Charleston S.C. 447 miles, she made the entire trip under her own power."

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85931

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Halftone photo of the ship's conning tower and periscopes, circa 1915.
    Note the submarine warning flag atop one of the periscopes.

    Courtesy of Alfred Cellier, 1977.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 665 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80743

    Submarines frozen in eighteen inches of ice


    At the New London Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut, about February 1918. The "boats" are (from left to right):
    USS G-4 (SS-26);
    USS G-2 (SS-27); and
    USS L-8 (SS-48).

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80587

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    In a floating drydock at the Thames Towboat Company, New London, Connecticut, 1918.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80599

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    "On the rocks" at Bartlet's Reef, circa 1 October 1918.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80745

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Grounded on Bartlett's Reef, 1 October 1918.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80597

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    "On the rocks" at Bartlet's Reef, 1 October 1918.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104987

    New London Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut


    View of the base waterfront, circa late 1918.
    Among the submarines present are:
    USS N-3 (Submarine # 55), right
    USS H-1 (Submarine # 28), inboard of N-3
    USS G-2 (Submarine # 27), left center, inboard of another submarine with the numeral "2" on her fairwater; and
    USS N-7 (Submarine # 59), left distance.

    Photograph from the album of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edward D. Porges. Donated by his daughter, Gail Porges Guggenheim, 2007.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80748

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Ship's crew, circa early 1918. Her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Joseph E. Austin, is in the center of the front row, with the dog. He is flanked by her six Chief Petty Officers, with seventeen of the submarine's eighteen other enlisted men standing behind.
    Note comment written on the photo: "The 'Chiefs' Ran the Boat!"

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80747

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Ship's starboard White & Middleton gasoline engine, photographed circa 1918.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Lieutenant O.E. Wightman.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 430 x 765 pixels

     

    For other pictures of this submarine, see:

  • USS G-2 (Submarine # 27), 1915-1919.


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


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    Page made 3 September 2002
    New image added 13 September 2007