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Photo # NH 43077:  USS K-3, photographed prior to World War I

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USS K-3 (Submarine # 34, later SS-34), 1914-1931.
Name changed from Orca before construction

USS K-3, a 392-ton K-1 class submarine, was built at San Francisco, California. The name Orca was assigned to her prior to construction, but this was changed to K-3 in November 1911, well over two years before she was launched. The submarine was placed in commission at the end of October 1914 and operated along the West Coast and in Hawaiian waters until late 1917. In response to the demands of World War I, K-3 was then transferred to Key West, Florida, where she spent the rest of the conflict on patrol and training duties. After remaining in East Coast waters for the remainder of her active career, she was decommissioned in February 1923 and laid up in reserve. USS K-3 was scrapped in 1931.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS K-3 (Submarine # 34, later SS-34).


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Photo #: NH 43077

USS K-3
(Submarine # 34)

Photographed prior to World War I.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69839

USS K-3
(Submarine # 34)

Fitting out at the Union Iron Works shipyard, San Francisco, California, on 7 April 1914.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42542

USS Alert
(1875-1922)

Tied up at Kuahua Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, while serving as a submarine tender, 22 August 1917.
Submarines alongside Alert include, from inboard to outboard, K-4 (Submarine # 35), K-3 (Submarine # 34) and either K-7 (Submarine # 38) or K-8 (Submarine # 39).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 

The following photographs may show USS K-3:

  • Photo # NH 41966: USS K-4 (Submarine # 35) operating with a sister submarine, circa 1918;
  • Photo # NH 41967: same subject;
  • Photo # NH 41968: same subject;
  • Photo # NH 45435: USS Cheyenne (Monitor # 10) with a "K" class submarine, circa 1918-1919; and
  • Photo # NH 45436: same subject.


    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 2004
    New images added 18 September 2004