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Photo # 80-G-1025096:  USS K-5 underway during her 1919 Mississippi River cruise

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USS K-5 (Submarine # 36, later SS-36), 1914-1931

USS K-5, a 392-ton K-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in August 1914. She operated along the U.S. East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico area during the next three years, including the first several months of World War I. In October 1917 K-5 deployed to the Azores, from which she patrolled in search of German submarines and surface raiders until April 1918, when she returned to the U.S. In January 1919 she went back to the Gulf of Mexico, and some months later made a cruise up the Mississippi River. K-5 continued her service in the Gulf, Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic until decommissioned in February 1923. Subsequently laid up at Norfolk, Virginia and, after November 1924, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, USS K-5 was sold for scrapping in early June 1931.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS K-5 (Submarine # 36, later SS-36).

For more images related to this submarine, see:

  • K-5 (Submarine # 36, later SS-36) -- 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 52377

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    In Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52376

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    In Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-1025096

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway, during her 1919 Mississippi River cruise.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 52382

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway on the Mississippi River, 1919.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52387

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway during her 1919 Mississippi River cruise.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52380

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway on the Mississippi River, 1919.
    The original photo caption states that she was the "first submarine to navigate the Mississippi".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 50KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52384

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway on the Mississippi River, 1919.
    Photographed from the mast of an escorting Navy ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 550 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52385

    USS K-5
    (Submarine # 36)

    Underway on the Mississippi River, 1919.
    Photographed from an escorting Navy ship.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 570 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented on these pages, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS K-5 (Submarine # 36). The following list features this image:

    The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-451710
    USS K-5 (Submarine # 36) off Pensacola, Florida, 12 April 1916.
    Starboard bow surface view. K-5 is painted in a "zebra" style camouflage, with alternating narrow diagonal (nearly vertical) stripes of light and dark paint.

    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For more images related to this submarine, see:

  • K-5 (Submarine # 36, later SS-36) -- Part II.


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


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