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Photo # NH 99399:  USS K-1 underway, circa 1916

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USS K-1 (Submarine # 32, later SS-32), 1914-1931.
Name changed from Haddock before construction

USS K-1, lead ship of a class of eight 392-ton submarines, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Originally named Haddock, she was renamed in November 1911, four months before her keel was laid. K-1 was placed in commission in mid-March 1914 and began operational service with the Atlantic Torpedo Flotilla that October. She was primarily used for developmental work during the next three years. In October 1917, some six months after the United States entered World War I, the submarine went to the Azores with three sisters to begin active patrols against German U-boats. Returning to the U.S. in December 1918, K-1 returned to her pre-war pattern of developmental work along the East Coast. She was decommissioned in March 1923 and sold for scrapping in June 1931.

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Photo #: NH 99399

USS K-1
(Submarine # 32)

Underway, circa 1916.
Photographed by O.W. Waterman, Hampton, Virginia.

Collection of Commander Haines H. Lippencott. Donated by Rhoda A. Lippencott, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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