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Photo # NH 51134:  USS L-6 or USS L-7 off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 15 April 1918

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USS L-6 (Submarine # 45, later SS-45), 1917-1925

USS L-6, a 456-ton L-5 class submarine built at Long Beach, California, was commissioned in early December 1917. She operated briefly in West Coast waters before transiting the Panama Canal en route to Charleston, South Carolina, where she arrived in June 1918. In October of that year L-6 was sent to the Azores, but the First World War ended just after she began operations from those strategically-located islands. In February 1919 the submarine returned to California, her base until mid-1922. She then went back to the East Coast and was decommissioned in November 1922. USS L-6 was sold for scrapping in December 1925.

This page features the only views we have concerning USS L-6 (Submarine # 45, later SS-45).


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Photo #: NH 51134

USS L-6
(Submarine # 45)
or
USS L-7 (Submarine # 46)

Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 April 1918.
This submarine has been fitted with the newly adopted "chariot bridge".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103256

Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922


The Lake type USS L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left) end of the nest, with her sister, USS L-7 (SS-46), in the middle (3rd from left). USS H-3 (SS-30) is between them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from right. The inboard (right) "boat" and that in the foreground are the other two units of the Lake-designed L-5 class, USS L-5 (SS-44) and USS L-6 (SS-45).
Note piloting station details, periscope, and wide deck of the Lake type "L-boat" in the foreground.

Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103255

Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922


The Lake type USS L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left) end of the nest, with her sister, USS L-7 (SS-46), in the middle (3rd from left). USS H-3 (SS-30) is between them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from right. The inboard "boat" and that in the foreground are the other two units of the Lake-designed L-5 class, USS L-5 (SS-44) and USS L-6 (SS-45).
Note the "Y-tube" hydrophone mounted on the bow of the submarine in the foreground.

Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 


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