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Photo # NH 44555:  USS O-9 afloat immediately after launching, 27 January 1918

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USS O-9 (Submarine # 70, later SS-70), 1918-1941

USS O-9, a 521-ton O-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was placed in commission in late July 1918. She patrolled against German submarines off the U.S. Atlantic Coast for the next several months and had begun a deployment to the Azores when the 11 November 1918 Armistice ended World War I's fighting. O-9 returned home soon afterwards and spent more than a decade serving in the western Atlantic and Panama Canal Zone areas, mainly on training duty. She was decommissioned in June 1931 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

O-9 was brought back into active service by the National Emergency that accompanied the Second World War in Europe. Recommissioned in mid-April 1941, she was sent to New London, Connecticut, to resume service as a training submarine. While undergoing tests on 20 June 1941 O-9 failed to surface after a dive. Salvage ships located her in more that 400 feet of water, but she had suffered crushing damage from the water pressure at that depth and all 33 men on board had been killed. O-9's remains have subsequently been surveyed for historical purposes, most recently in September 2004.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS O-9 (Submarine # 70, later SS-70).


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Photo #: NH 44555

USS O-9
(Submarine # 70)

Afloat immediately after launching, at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 27 January 1918.
Note the icy water.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103193

Submarine Division 8
,
Commander Guy E. Davis commanding

Nine of the Division's ten "O" type submarines at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 August 1921.
Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston.
Submarines in the front row are (from left to right): O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67), O-9 (SS-70) and O-1 (SS-62).
Those in the second row are (from left to right): O-7 (SS-68), unidentified (either O-2 or O-8), O-5 (SS-66), O-10 (SS-71) and O-4 (SS-65).
Large four-stacked ship in the left center distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 93672

Six "O" type submarines


Nested alongside a pier, in the Central American or Caribbean area, circa 1923-1924. USS O-6 (SS-67) and USS O-9 (SS-70) are the two outboard submarines.
USS Quail (AM-15) is also alongside the pier, in the left background.

Courtesy of the Estate of Virginia Cornwell, 1982.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102780

USS Jason
(AC-12)

At Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1924.
Several submarines are in the foreground, including (from left to right):
USS S-19 (SS-124);
USS O-9 (SS-70);
USS R-26 (SS-103) -- probably--; and
USS O-2 (SS-63).

Courtesy of Chief Boatswain's Mate George Behrens, USN (Retired), 1974.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 


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