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Photo # NH 52396:  USS K-7 underway at half speed, 3 October 1914

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USS K-7 (Submarine # 38, later SS-38), 1914-1931

USS K-7, a 392-ton K-1 class submarine built at San Francisco, California, was placed in commission at the beginning of December 1914. Following initial service along the California coast, she deployed to Pearl Harbor in October 1915 and spent the next two years operating in Hawaiian waters. World War I's needs called K-7 away from the Pacific late in 1917, and she operated in the Gulf of Mexico during nearly all of 1918 and the first three months of 1919, returning to the Caribbean area later in 1919 for more active service. From early 1921 the submarine operated along the East Coast, with her activities including training duty at the Naval Academy, among other places. USS K-7 was decommissioned at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in February 1923. Later moved to the Reserve Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, she remained laid up until December 1930, when she was stricken from the Navy list. K-7 was sold for scrap in June 1931.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS K-7 (Submarine # 38, later SS-38).


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Photo #: NH 69852

USS K-7
(Submarine # 38)

At rest, off the Union Iron Works shipyard, San Francisco, California, on 3 October 1914.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 52396

USS K-7
(Submarine # 38)

Underway at half speed on 3 October 1914, probably in the vicinity of San Francisco, California.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 52397

USS K-7
(Submarine # 38)

Exterior conning station and periscopes.
These long and short walk-around, five-inch diameter periscopes were both manufactured by the Electric Boat Company and installed in May 1915. The photograph was probably taken at about that time.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 52398

USS K-7
(Submarine # 38)

Exterior conning station and periscopes.
These long and short walk-around, five-inch diameter periscopes were both manufactured by the Electric Boat Company and installed in May 1915. The photograph was probably taken at about that time.
The unidentified submarine in the immediate foreground appears to have smaller-diameter periscopes, with taller sheers to support them.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 
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

 


USS K-7 is seen in the left distance in the following photograph:

Photo #: NH 70979

USS S-1
(SS-105)

Martin MS-1 scouting seaplane (Bureau # A-6525) on her after deck, during the mid-1920s.
Among the submarines docked in the background is USS K-7 (SS-38), at left. USS L-8 (SS-48) is at right, with USS L-9 (SS-49) just to her left.
Original photo caption gives location as New London, Connecticut. However, the view may have been taken at Norfolk or Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 305 pixels

 


USS K-7 may be among the submarines seen in the following photograph:

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.

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