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Photo # NH 59632:  USS D-3 (ex-Salmon) underway off New York City, October 1912

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USS Salmon (Submarine # 19, later SS-19), 1910-1922. Renamed D-3 in 1911

USS Salmon, last of the three 288-ton Narwhal class coastal submarines built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in September 1910. In October 1911, the submarine was renamed D-3. She operated along the U.S. East Coast during her entire career, with a deployment to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in 1912-1914. During and after World War I she was employed on training service at New London, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode Island. In reserve after September 1919, D-3 was given the hull number SS-19 in July 1920. She was formally decommissioned in March 1922 and sold at the end of July of that year.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Salmon (Submarine # 19), which was renamed D-3 in 1911.


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Photo #: NH 99133

USS Salmon
(Submarine # 19)

Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of Salmon underway, probably while running builder's trials, circa 1910.
Copied from "The New Navy of the United States", by N.L. Stebbins, (New York, 1912).

Donation of David Shadell, 1987.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 59632

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19)

Underway off New York City during the October 1912 Naval Review.
USS Kearsarge (Battleship # 5) is in the background.
Note the "E" award displayed on D-3's conning tower.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 82569

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19)

Underway, prior to World War I.
Photograph by Enrique Muller, printed in the book "Our Navy in the War", by Lawrence Perry, 1922.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 78926

"U.S. Submarines awaiting Orders"


Halftone reproduction, printed on a postal card, of a photograph of five submarines nested together prior to World War I. The three "boats" at right are (from center to right): USS D-2 (Submarine # 18); USS D-1 (Submarine # 17); and USS D-3 (Submarine # 19). The two at left are probably (in no particular order) USS E-1 (Submarine # 24) and USS E-2 (Submarine # 25).

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Medical Service Corps), 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 99157

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19, ex-Salmon)

Alongside a dock with other submarines on an icy day, circa 1918. Location is probably the Submarine Base at Groton, Connecticut. D-3 appears to be wearing pattern camouflage.
Other submarines present are (moving outward from D-3:
USS D-1 (Submarine # 17);
USS G-4 (Submarine # 26); and
USS G-3 (Submarine # 31).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 51157

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19), at left,
and
USS D-2 (Submarine # 18), center

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 5 March 1919, with shipyard workmen on board. Note the ventilating fans on D-3's deck. A derrick barge is alongside D-2.
Among the four submarines visible in the background are USS L-1 (Submarine # 40), USS L-4 (Submarine # 43) and USS L-10 (Submarine # 50).
A motorcycle is parked at the far left.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 58514

USS Salmon
(Submarine # 19)

Crew posed on deck, while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911.
William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 58515

USS Salmon
(Submarine # 19)

Crewmen on deck, while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911.
William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 58516

USS Salmon
(Submarine # 19)

View on deck, while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911.
William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 58517

USS Salmon
(Submarine # 19)

William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, standing on deck, while Salmon was cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911.
Mr. Crowell gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days". Nimitz, who commanded the submarine's "mother ship" at the time, had invited him on the cruise.

Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 102649

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19)

"Coming to the Surface", prior to World War I.
Photographed by N. Moser, New York, and Enrique Muller, Jr.
Note the submarine "fish" flag atop her after periscope.

Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 102650

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19)

Underway submerged, with periscope trained on the camera, prior to World War I.
Photographed by N. Moser, New York, and Enrique Muller, Jr.

Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 77469

USS D-3
(Submarine # 19)

Halftone reproduction of a photograph by N. Moser and Enrique Muller, Jr., showing the submarine underway submerged, circa 1916, with her periscope trained on the camera. It is printed on an advertising blotter.
Note the submarine "fish" flag.

Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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The following photograph includes either Salmon or her sister, USS Narwhal (Submarine # 17):

Photo #: NH 53776

U.S. Navy submarines in port, circa 1909


Possibly photographed at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, these submarines are (from left to right): Tarpon (Submarine # 14); either Narwhal (Submarine # 17) or Salmon (Submarine # 19); Snapper (Submarine # 16); Stingray (Submarine # 13); Bonita (Submarine # 15); and Grayling (Submarine # 18).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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Page made 28 February 2004
New image added 13 July 2004