USS K-6, a 392-ton K-1 class submarine, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was commissioned in September 1914 and operated for the next three years along the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. In October 1917 K-6 deployed to the Azores with other submarines of her class to begin anti-submarine patrols in the central Atlantic, a mission she performed until World War I ended in November 1918. She then returned to the United States and, following overhaul, began four years of further service between New England and the Caribbean Sea. USS K-6 was placed out of commission in May 1923 and later towed to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where she remained laid up until stricken from the Navy list in December 1930. She was sold for scrap in 1931.
This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS K-6 (Submarine # 37, later SS-37).
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Photo #: NH 102652 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Operating on the surface "At Slow Speed", prior to World War I. Photographed by N. Moser, New York, and Enrique Muller, Jr. Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 480 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 2904 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916. Her sister, K-5 (Submarine # 36) is in the distance, beyond K-6's bow. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52395 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Passing under a lift bridge on 26 May 1915. Collection of Vice Admiral Albert W. Grant, USN (Retired), who was Commander Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet, in 1915-1917. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52391 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Coming alongside USS Margaret (SP-527) at Horta, Fayal, Azores, in December 1917. Photographed by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 54KB; 420 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52388 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) At Horta, Fayal, Azores, in December 1917. Photographed from USS Margaret (SP-527) by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52393 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) At Horta, Fayal, Azores, in December 1917. Photographed from USS Margaret (SP-527) by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 425 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52392 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) At Horta, Fayal, Azores, in December 1917. Photographed by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52389 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Partially submerged off Horta, Fayal, Azores, in December 1917. Photographed by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 435 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 52394 USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) Moored to a buoy at Horta, Fayal, Azores, in January 1918, with a boat alongside. Photographed from USS Margaret (SP-527) by Raymond D. Borden. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 440 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 68981 USS K-6 (SS-37) In port, during the early 1920s. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103194-A Submarines K-7 (SS-38), K-4 (SS-35) and K-6 (SS-37) (listed from left to right) Alongside USS Bushnell (AS-2), 27 August 1921. This image is cropped from Photo # NH 103194, a panoramic photograph taken by J.C. Crosby, 11 Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented on these pages, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS K-6 (Submarine # 37). 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".
USS K-6 (Submarine # 37) at Pensacola, Florida, 12 April 1916. Starboard quarter surface view. K-6 is wearing an experimental camouflage scheme, with wide diagonal 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:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 17 October 2004
New image added 18 November 2005