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Photo # NH 85932:  USS G-2 underway, circa 1916

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USS G-2 (Submarine # 27), 1915-1919.
Originally named Tuna

USS G-2, a 400-ton Lake-type submarine, was built under contract with the Lake Torpedo Boat Company and completed by the New York Navy Yard. She was originally named Tuna, but was renamed G-2 in November 1911, prior to her launching. Commissioned in February 1915, she operated along the Atlantic coast for the next year, then received a lengthy shipyard overhaul. G-2 returned to the active fleet in late June 1917. She primarily spent the remainder of her service career on experimental and training assignments, based at New London, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts, though she briefly conducted anti-submarine patrols in the Long Island Sound area in mid-1918. USS G-2 was decommissioned in April 1919 and subsequently used for depth charge and ordnance net tests. After accidently sinking off the Connecticut coast on 30 July 1919, she was left where she rested.

This page features, or provides links to, all the views we have of USS G-2 (Submarine # 27).

For additional images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS G-2 (Submarine # 27) -- Part II.


    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 42004

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    In port, prior to World War I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 101548

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27), left
    and
    USS G-1 (Submarine # 19½), right

    Alongside USS Fulton (Submarine Tender # 1) at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, circa 1915.
    Note the 13-star "boat flag" flying at G-2's stern.

    Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 400 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85932

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Underway, circa 1916, with USS Fulton following astern.

    Courtesy of Alfred Cellier, 1977.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 570 x 765 pixels

    Note:
    This is a rather fine-screen halftone.

     
    Photo #: NH 102651

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Underway on the surface, prior to World War I, with crewmen on deck "getting a little fresh air".
    Photographed by E. Muller and N. Moser, New York.
    Note this submarine's 13-star "boat" flag.

    Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 500 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77468

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Halftone reproduction of a photograph by Enrique Muller, showing the submarine underway, circa 1916. It is printed on an advertising blotter.

    Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 315 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80585

    USS G-2 (SS-27)


    Tied up alongside a dock, presumably at the New London Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut, circa 1918.
    USS G-4 (SS-26) is inboard of G-2.

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42005

    USS G-2
    (Submarine # 27)

    Fitting out on 2 April 1912.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     

    For additional images related to this submarine, see:

  • USS G-2 (Submarine # 27) -- Part II.


    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 8 March 2003