Photo #: NH 103116
USS S-13 (SS-118)
Entering San Francisco Bay, California, during the 1920s.
Donation of William F. Witty, from the collection of Gerald M.
Chapentier, 2005.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41900
USS S-13 (SS-118)
In port, circa the 1920s.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 70910
Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine
Waterfront and covered shipways, circa summer-fall 1927. USS
V-4 (SM-1) and USS V-5 (SC-1) are under construction
in inside shipways building. V-4 (later renamed Argonaut)
is on the nearer way and appears to be nearly ready for her launching,
which took place on 10 November 1927. V-5 (later renamed
Narwhal) is in a much earlier stage of construction, having
been laid down on 10 May 1927.
USS S-13 (SS-118) and another "S"-type submarine
are alongside the waterfront, at left.
Note automobiles parked in the center and right.
Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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.
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Photo #: NH 59966
USS S-13 (SS-118)
Captain Charles T. Owens, Captain of the Yard, turns the submarine
over to her Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Wilder D. Baker, during
commissioning ceremonies at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery,
Maine, 14 July 1923.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 41901
USS S-13 (SS-118)
"Uncle Sam's latest submarine S-13 just commissioned.
Crew laughs at hoodoo supposedly attached to No. 13." (quoted
from the original caption).
S-13 was commissioned on 14 July 1923.
The original print came from the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau,
318-326 West 39th Street, New York, N.Y.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 50243
USS S-13 (SS-118)
Crewmen relaxing and reading newspapers on the submarine's foredeck,
at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 1933.
Photographed by Stahl.
The original print came from the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau,
Christopher and Washington Streets, New York, N.Y.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98607
USS S-13 (SS-118)
Launching, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 20 October
1921.
Collection of the Society of Sponsors of the U.S. Navy.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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