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Photo # NH 53772:  USS Grayling underway in New York Harbor, October 1912

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USS Grayling (Submarine # 18, later SS-18), 1909-1922. Renamed D-2 in 1911

USS Grayling, a 288-ton Narwhal class coastal submarine, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. Commissioned in November 1909, she was renamed D-2 in November 1911. The submarine's entire career was spent in the U.S. Atlantic Coast area, and included training and experimental duties at New London, Connecticut, during World War I. Reduced to inactive, though still commissioned, status in September 1919, USS D-2 was designated SS-18 in mid-1920 and formally decommissioned in January 1922. She was sold in September 1922.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Grayling (Submarine # 18), which was renamed D-2 in 1911.


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

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Photo #: NH 53774

USS Grayling
(Submarine # 18, later renamed D-2)

Underway, probably during builder's trials, circa 1909.
Note the striped poles near the submarine's bow and stern, possibly for evaluating trim angles while partially submerged.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 53772

USS D-2
(Submarine # 18, ex-USS Grayling)

Underway in New York Harbor, during the October 1912 naval review.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99160

USS D-2
(Submarine # 18, ex-Grayling)

Photographed circa 1914, probably in the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island.

Courtesy of Jim Kazalis, 1981.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 450 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 53773

USS Grayling
(Submarine # 18, later renamed D-2)

Launching, at the Fore River shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 16 June 1909.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
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.

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 575 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 99006

USS Snapper
(Submarine # 16), outboard; and
USS Grayling (Submarine # 18), by the dock

Fitting out at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, during the summer or fall of 1909.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 

Related image: Photo # NH 54127, a photograph of an invitation to attend the launching of USS F-2 (Submarine # 21), features a photo of USS Grayling that is essentially the same as Photo # NH 53774 (shown above).


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


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Page made 12 March 2004
New image added 6 April 2004