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Photo # NH 41914:  USS Viper underway in New York Harbor, 1909

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USS Viper (Submarine # 10, later SS-10), 1907-1922.
Later renamed B-1

USS Viper, lead "boat" of a class of three 145-ton submarines, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in October 1907, she operated along the U.S. East Coast for the next two years, and in 1910 became part of the Atlantic Fleet's Reserve Torpedo Group based at Charleston, South Carolina. Viper was renamed B-1 in November 1911 as part of a general renaming of the Navy's submarines. In early 1915 she was transported to the Far East on board the collier Hector, recommissioning for Asiatic Fleet service in April of that year. The rest of her career was spent in Philippine waters. B-1 received the hull number SS-10 in July 1920 and was decommissioned at the beginning of December 1921. Subsequently employed as a target, she was stricken from the list of U.S. Navy vessels in mid-January 1922.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Viper, which was renamed B-1 in 1911.


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Photo #: NH 41914

USS Viper
(Submarine # 10)

Underway in New York Harbor, with the New York & Cuba Mail docks in the background, 1909.
Photographed by Enrique Muller.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 38

USS Viper
(Submarine # 10)

In port, with members of her crew on deck, circa 1907-1911.
USS Tarantula (Submarine # 12) is behind her.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 490 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 29

USS Cuttlefish
(Submarine # 11),
USS Tarantula (Submarine # 12), and
USS Viper (Submarine # 10)

In port, circa 1909.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 495 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102451

USS Hector
(Collier # 7)

Off the Cavite Navy Yard, Philippine Islands, circa March 1915, with submarines A-3, A-5 and B-1 on deck, after transporting them out from the United States.
B-1 is on Hector's starboard side. The two "A" boats are in the center and port side cradles.

Donation of Ted Stone.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 102452

USS B-1
(Submarine # 10)

Slides over the side of USS Hector (Collier # 7) into Manila Bay, circa March 1915, after she was transported to the Cavite Navy Yard from the United States.
Hector also brought out the submarines A-3 and A-5 during this voyage.

Donation of Ted Stone.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 69710

USS B-1
(Submarine # 10), center
and
USS A-7 (Submarine # 8), right

In Philippine waters, during the Nineteen-"Teens".

Courtesy of Arthur B. Furnas, 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 


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Page made 27 October 2003
New images added 9 March 2004