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Photo # NH 41758:  USS S-9 underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, June 1927

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USS S-9 (Submarine # 114, later SS-114), 1921-1937

USS S-9, seventh of the eleven 876-ton S-3 class submarines built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, was commissioned in February 1921. She began a long voyage to the Philippines at the end of May of that year, arriving in December after transiting the Panama Canal and calling at ports in California and Hawaii while en route. S-9 served with the Asiatic Fleet in Chinese and Philippine waters before returning to the U.S. West Coast late in 1924. The submarine was based there until February 1927, when she went south to Panama for a few months and then continued on to the Atlantic Coast. Her remaining active career was split between the East Coast and Panama areas. USS S-9 was placed out of commission in mid-April 1931. Following nearly six years in lay up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard she was stricken from the list of Navy ships in January 1937 and subsequently scrapped.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS S-9 (Submarine # 114, later SS-114).


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Photo #: NH 41757

USS S-9
(SS-114)

Underway, circa the early 1920s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41759

USS S-9
(SS-114)

Photographed during the 1920s.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41758

USS S-9
(SS-114)

Underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with crew members on deck, June 1927.
Photographed by Mr. Kaye.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 100459

USS Camden
(AS-6)

Photographed circa the middle or later 1920s, with ten "S" type submarines alongside. The submarines are (on Camden's starboard side, from left to right):
USS S-18 (SS-123);
unidentified Electric Boat type "S-boat";
USS S-19 (SS-124);
USS S-12 (SS-117); and an
unidentified Government type "S-boat".
(on Camden's port side, from left to right):
unidentified Government type "S-boat";
USS S-7 (SS-112);
USS S-8 (SS-113);
USS S-9 (SS-114); and
USS S-3 (SS-107).

Collection of Vice Admiral Dixwell Ketcham, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 165KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103258

USS S-6
(SS-111)
and
USS S-9 (SS-114)

At the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa 1921-1924.

Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46546

USS S-9
(Submarine # 114)

Keel laying ceremony, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 20 January 1919.
Note the polished rivetting hammers held by the officers at right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


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Page made 25 February 2006
Photo caption corrected 28 February 2006