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Photo # NH 44576:  USS Octopus surfacing during preliminary trials, July 1907

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USS Octopus (Submarine # 9), 1908-1920.
Renamed C-1 in 1911

USS Octopus, first of a class of five 238-ton submarines, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was commissioned in June 1908, following extensive trials, and served along the U.S. East coast on experimental, training and operational duties for the next five years. During a general renaming of U.S. submarines, in November 1911 Octopus became USS C-1. From May to December 1913 she was based at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and after that served in the waters near the Panama Canal. USS C-1 was decommissioned at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, in August 1919 and was sold in April 1920.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Octopus (Submarine # 9), which was renamed C-1 in 1911.


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Photo #: NH 44576

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

Surfacing after a submerged run, during her preliminary trials, off Newport, Rhode Island, July 1907.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 530 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44577

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

Photographed during trials, circa 1907.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 88481

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

Photograph taken circa 1907, when Octopus was first completed. It was published on a color-tinted postal card by Thomson & Thomson, Boston, Massachusetts, prior to World War I.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Retired), 1978

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98945

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

In port, probably when first completed, circa 1907.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44550

USS C-1
(Submarine # 9, ex-Octopus)

Underway in New York Harbor during the naval review, 12 October 1912.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 85276

C-Class submarines in the Gatun Locks, Panama Canal, circa 1914


Photograph printed on a color-tinted postal card, prior to World War I.
The submarine present include (in no particular order): USS C-1 (submarine # 9); USS C-2 (submarine # 13); USS C-3 (submarine # 14); USS C-4 (submarine # 15); and USS C-5 (submarine # 163).
Security concerns about this photograph may have prompted the official correspondence reproduced in Photo # NH 85276 (extended caption).

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1975

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44578

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

Being prepared for launching, at the Fore River Ship Building Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 4 October 1906.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44579

USS Octopus
(Submarine # 9)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken during her launching, at the Fore River Ship Building Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 4 October 1906.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 500 pixels

 


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