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Photo # NH 99628:  Launching of USS Permit, at Groton, Connecticut, 5 October 1936

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This page features construction and miscellaneous views related to USS Permit (SS-178).

For other images concerning this submarine, see:

  • USS Permit (SS-178), 1937-1958.


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    Photo #: NH 68479

    Submarines in San Diego harbor, California, 1940


    Moored alongside USS Holland (AS-3), from which the photograph was taken, the submarines are (from left to right): Salmon (SS-182); Seal (SS-183); Pickerel (SS-177); Plunger (SS-179); Snapper (SS-185) and Permit (SS-178).
    Note the small motor boats, of the type carried by fleet submarines prior to World War II.
    One of the men standing on Salmon's deck is Yeoman Clayton Johnson, who in 1969 was a Commander serving at the Naval History Division.
    USS Enterprise (CV-6) is in the distance, tied up at Naval Air Station, North Island.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute. James C. Fahey Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 565 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99672

    Six U.S. Navy submarines


    Nested together, circa 1939-1941. Probably seen from USS Canopus (AS-9) in Manila Bay, Philippines. The inboard submarine is not identified. The others are (from left to right):
    USS Pike (SS-173);
    USS Tarpon (SS-175);
    USS Porpoise (SS-172);
    USS Perch (SS-176); and
    USS Permit (SS-178).

    Collection of Jack L. Wheat, who served in Canopus.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99671

    USS Permit
    (SS-178)

    Alongside another submarine, circa 1939-1941. Probably seen from USS Canopus (AS-9) in Manila Bay, Philippines.

    Collection of Jack L. Wheat, who served in Canopus.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99628

    USS Permit
    (SS-178)

    Launching, at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, at 12:15 PM on 5 October 1936.
    Photographed by the Electric Boat Company.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Collection of Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr., USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99629

    USS Permit
    (SS-178)

    View of the fore poppet in place, as she was being prepared for launching at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, 4 October 1936.
    Photographed by the Electric Boat Company.
    Note the flooding holes in Permit's hull.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Collection of Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr., USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 99630

    USS Permit
    (SS-178)

    View of the submarine's stern, as she was being prepared for launching at the Electric Boat Company shipyard, Groton, Connecticut, 4 October 1936.
    Photographed by the Electric Boat Company.
    Note Permit's starboard propeller, rudder, after torpedo tube door and propeller guard.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Collection of Vice Admiral Harold G. Bowen, Sr., USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93518-KN (color)

    USS Permit (SS-178)

    World War II battle flag.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 93519-KN (color)

    USS Permit (SS-178)

    Artwork of an insignia and battle flag used during the later part of World War II.

    Courtesy of Donald C. Couey, 1981.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this submarine, see:

  • USS Permit (SS-178), 1937-1958.


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


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    New images added 28 October 2004