USS S-10, an 876-ton S-3 class submarine, was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. Placed in commission in September 1922, she operated off the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean and Panama Canal areas during most of the next decade and a half. In February-July 1925 S-10 made a long cruise from New England to Hawaii and back, twice transiting the Panama Canal during the voyage. In the spring of 1933 she went up the Mississippi River to visit Memphis, Tennessee. USS S-10 was decommissioned in July 1936 and sold for scrapping in November of that year.
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Photo #: NH 41768 USS S-10 (SS-115) At the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, with her upperworks coated with ice after a trip from New London, Connecticut, 24 January 1925. Note the philosophical statement on the photograph: "It's a great life if you don't weaken". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 555 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-455861 USS S-10 (SS-115) Departing the Panama Canal Zone for a cruise up the Mississippi River, 28 April 1933. She wears the Submarine Division Five emblem (The numeral "5" flanked by two seahorses) on her fairwater, directly above the "0" in S-10. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 74633 USS Bushnell (AS-5) Tending submarines at Gonaives, Haiti, 1924. The two outboard submarines are S-10 (SS-115) and S-13 (SS-118). Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN(Retired), 1971. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 545 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41770 USS S-10 (SS-115) Workmen knocking out wedges between the submarine and her building ways, while preparing for her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 83KB; 690 x 625 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103619 USS S-10 (SS-115) Miss Marian K. Paine (holding buoquet and christening bottle), the submarine's Sponsor, poses with members of her party and other dignitaries during S-10's launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. Notes on the original print identify those present as (from left to right): Scaritt; Wales; Adams; Captain Louis R. de Steiguer (Commandant of the Portsmouth Navy Yard), Miss Paine, Governor Bartlett, and Captain Laurence S. Adams (Portsmouth Navy Yard Industrial Manager). Collection of Rear Admiral Bradford Bartlett, USN. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41776 USS S-10 (SS-115) Miss Marian K. Paine, Sponsor, poses by S-10's bow with her buoquet and the christening bottle, during the submarine's launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. Also present is Captain Laurence S. Adams, USN (Construction Corps), the Navy Yard's Industrial Manager. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 90KB; 585 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41772 USS S-10 (SS-115) Miss Marian K. Paine, Sponsor, poses by S-10's bow with her buoquet and the christening bottle, during the submarine's launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 91KB; 580 x 765 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41774 USS S-10 (SS-115) Miss Marian K. Paine, Sponsor, christens S-10 during the submarine's launching ceremonies, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41773 USS S-10 (SS-115) Five women on the submarine's deck, at the time of her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. These ladies, all wearing life jackets, probably rode S-10 during her slide down the shipways into the water. They may have been Navy Yard employees, as one (at left) is wearing what appears to be an identification tag. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41775 USS S-10 (SS-115) Afloat, immediately after her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 63KB; 690 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41777 USS S-10 (SS-115) Tug moves the submarine to a berth, following her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 41771 USS S-10 (SS-115) Being tugged to an outfitting wharf, following her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 9 December 1920. The original print was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence in 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 635 pixels |
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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 24 August 2006