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Photo # NH 102849:  USS R-14 underway, probably during trials in late 1919 or early 1920

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USS R-14 (Submarine # 91, later SS-91), 1919-1945

USS R-14, a 569-ton R-1 class submarine built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned on Christmas Eve 1919. She went to the Pacific in mid-1920 and was based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for the rest of the decade. Among her experiences was a perhaps unique, for a U.S. Navy submarine, use of improvised sails for propulsion in May 1921, when she ran out of fuel while searching for the missing tug Conestoga.

R-14 left the Pearl Harbor in late 1930, returning to the Atlantic Coast in February 1931 to take up an assignment as a training submarine at New London, Connecticut. She moved to Key West, Florida, in 1941 and spent nearly all of World War II on training and patrol service in the Gulf of Mexico area. USS R-14 was placed out of commission in May 1945 and sold for scrapping later in that year.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS R-14 (Submarine # 91, later SS-91).


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Photo #: NH 102849

USS R-14
(Submarine # 91)

Underway, probably during trials in late 1919 or early 1920.
Note that her deck gun has not yet been installed.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102849-A

USS R-14
(Submarine # 91)

Photograph taken circa late 1919 or early 1920, cropped and extensively retouched to add a deck gun and antenna wires.
This image, without retouching is Photo # NH 102849.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102850

USS R-14
(SS-91)

Departing Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa 1930.
Photographed by Tai Sing Loo.

The original photograph is in U.S. National Archives' Record Group 19N, Box 59, Folder A.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 66367

USS R-14
(SS-91)

In port, with the tug W.F. Dalzell beyond her bow, 1941.
Photographed by Ted Stone.

Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 52858

USS R-14
(SS-91)

Under "full sail" in May 1921.
While searching for the missing USS Conestoga (AT-54) southeast of Hawaii, the R-14 lost her powerplant. As repairs were unsuccessful, her crew rigged a jury sail, made of canvas battery deck covers, to the periscope and sailed her to Hilo. She arrived there on 15 May 1921, after five days under sail.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 425 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41811

USS R-14
(Submarine # 91)

Launching, at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 10 October 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102848

USS R-14
(Submarine # 91)

Ship's Sponsor, Miss Florence Gardner (holding flowers) with her party during R-14's launching ceremonies at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, on 10 October 1919.

Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 535 pixels

 


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