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Photo # NH 43698:  USS Penacook underway, circa the early 1900s

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USS Penacook (1898-1947, later YT-6 & YTM-6)

USS Penacook, a 230-ton harbor tug, was launched at the New York Navy Yard in October 1898. Assigned to the Port Royal Naval Station, South Carolina, until about 1905, she susequently spent a few years each at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, and the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia. In 1911 she became a yard tug at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in Kittery, Maine, and served at that facility for the rest of her career. After about 1920, she was designated YT-6. In 1939, she assisted rescue and salvage efforts on the sunken submarine USS Squalus (SS-192). Redesignated YTM-6 in May 1944, Penacook was selected for disposal in September 1945 and sold in August 1947.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Penacook.


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Photo #: NH 43698

USS Penacook (1898-1947)


Photographed during the early 1900s. She was later given the hull number YT-6, and ultimately YTM-6.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 103285

USS Penacook
(1898-1947, later YT-6)

In an East Coast harbor, circa the 1900-1915 era.

Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103419

USS Penacook
(1898-1947, later YT-6)

Dressed with flags for a holiday, circa 1901-1902, probably at the U.S. Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 53KB; 450 x 650 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103417

USS Penacook
(1898-1947, later YT-6))

Underway during a trip from Port Royal Naval Station, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, circa 1901-1902.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 670 x 675 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103418

USS Penacook
(1898-1947, later YT-6)

Alongside a coal barge, circa 1901-1902, probably at the U.S. Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 690 x 650 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 57509

USS Squalus (SS-192) Salvage Operations, 1939


View taken from USS Falcon (ASR-2) on 12 August 1939, after Squalus had been lifted off the sea bottom and was being towed to shallower water, supported by salvage pontoons. USS Wandank (AT-26) and a smaller tug (probably USS Penacook, YT-6) are towing, while Falcon acted as restraining ship. There are groups of three pontoons each visible on the surface at the submerged submarine's bow and stern. One more pontoon was underwater at the bow and three more at the stern.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 


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Page made 30 June 2000
New images added and text updated 31 January 2006