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Photo # NH 63383:  USS L-9 underway, probably during trials

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USS L-9 (Submarine # 49, later SS-49), 1916-1933

USS L-9, a 450-ton L-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in August 1916. Following service in U.S. East Coast waters, in January and February 1918 she crossed the Atlantic to Bantry Bay, Ireland, to begin nearly a year of operations against German submarines. Once the 11 November 1918 Armistice had brought an end to World War I combat, L-9 was based at Portland, England. She returned to the United States early in 1919 and was thereafter employed along the Atlantic Coast. USS L-9 was decommissioned in May 1923 and laid up. She was scrapped in November 1933.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS L-9 (Submarine # 49, later SS-49).


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Photo #: NH 63383

USS L-9
(Submarine # 49)

Underway, probably while running trials in 1916.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51165

USS L-9
(Submarine # 49)

In Bantry Bay, Ireland, 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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USS L-9 is among the submarines seen in the following photographs:

Photo #: NH 45438

USS Tonopah
(Monitor # 9)

View on the ship's foredeck, showing 12" guns and crewmen, taken while she was serving as submarine tender at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1917.
Submarines alongside are USS L-11 (Submarine # 51) and USS L-9 (Submarine # 49).
Note the workbench, with vise attached, in the left foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51172

"L" Type Submarines


Alongside USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender # 2) at Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1918.
These submarines are, from left to right:
unidentified submarine;
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40);
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49); and
USS L-2 (Submarine # 41).
Identification marks painted on these "boats"' fairwaters include the letter "A", to distinguish them from British "L" Type submarines.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 515 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-1024919

"L" Type Submarines


Alongside USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender # 2) at Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1918.
These submarines are, from left to right:
unidentified submarine;
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40);
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49); and
USS L-2 (Submarine # 41).
Identification marks painted on these "boats"' fairwaters include the letter "A", to distinguish them from British "L" Type submarines.

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

Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 470 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 51171

"L" Type Submarines


Alongside USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender # 2) at Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1918.
These submarines are, from left to right:
unidentified submarine;
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-4 (Submarine # 43); and
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 51170

"L" Type Submarines


Alongside USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender # 2) at Bantry Bay, Ireland, in 1918.
These submarines are, from left to right:
unidentified submarine;
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-4 (Submarine # 43); and
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49).
Note the smoke from the submarines' engines.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 61684

USS Bushnell
(Submarine Tender # 2)

Lifting USS L-2 (Submarine # 41) partially out of the water, while in an Irish port during World War I.
Moored to Bushnell's port side are (from left to right):
USS L-4 (Submarine # 43);
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49); and
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 60252

"L" type submarines


Alongside their tender, in British waters during World War I.
Tender is probably USS Bushnell. Location is probably Berehaven, Ireland.
Submarines are (from left to right):
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42);
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-4 (Submarine # 43); and
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49).
Note differing forms of "chariot" bridges on these submarines; white markings on their foredecks; and 3"/23 deck guns in retracted position, just forward of the submarines' fairwaters.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 51166

USS L-9
(Submarine # 49), at right
and
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42)

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa February 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51168

USS L-3
(Submarine # 42) - left;
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49) - center; and
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51) - right

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa February 1919. "Homeward-bound" pennant flying from L-9's periscope indicates that this photo may have been taken as the submarines arrived home following World War I service in British waters.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 51167

"L" class submarines


Tied up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, with a harbor tug outboard, circa February 1919.
Submarines are (from left to right):
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42);
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49);
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51); and
USS L-2 (Submarine # 41).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


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


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