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Photo # NH 44543:  USS O-1 off the New York Navy Yard, November 1922

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USS O-1 (Submarine # 62, later SS-62), 1918-1923

USS O-1, lowest numbered but last completed of the ten 521-ton O-1 class submarines, was built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, located in Kittery, Maine. She was commissioned in November 1918 and spent her entire operational career in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. When the Navy formally implemented its hull number system in July 1920, O-1 was designated SS-62. Late in 1930 she was assigned to experimental duty, based at New London, Connecticut, but was active in this role for a relatively short time before decommissioning in June 1931. USS O-1 was stricken from the register of Naval vessels in May 1938 and sold for scrapping.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS O-1 (Submarine # 62, later SS-62).


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Photo #: NH 99962

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

Underway, probably in 1918.

Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. Donated by Virginia Agostini, 1990.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46712

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

In drydock at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 5 September 1918.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46711

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

In drydock at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 5 September 1918.
Note the submarine's rudder and after diving planes.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46713

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

In drydock at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, in November 1918.
Note the submarine's rudder, after diving planes and starboard propeller.
The dry dock is being filled.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 555 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44543

USS O-1
(SS-62)

Off the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., November 1922.

Collection of the New York Naval Shipyard, 1966.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 375 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 60279

Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina


Seven "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919.
USS O-1 (Submarine # 62) is in the foreground. USS O-3 (submarine # 64) is next astern, to left. USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is the most distant, in the right center.
Outside the drydock (center background) are three destroyers, one of which is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25), and USS Asheville (Gunboat # 21), which is under construction.
The drydock is being filled.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 128KB; 610 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 42565

Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina


Seven "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919.
USS O-1 (Submarine # 62) is in the foreground. USS O-3 (submarine # 64) is next astern, to left. USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is the most distant, in the right center.
Outside the drydock (center background) are three destroyers, one of which is USS Terry (Destroyer # 25), and USS Asheville (Gunboat # 21), which is under construction.
The drydock is in the process of being filled.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 137KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 103193

Submarine Division 8
,
Commander Guy E. Davis commanding

Nine of the Division's ten "O" type submarines at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 August 1921.
Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston.
Submarines in the front row are (from left to right): O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67), O-9 (SS-70) and O-1 (SS-62).
Those in the second row are (from left to right): O-7 (SS-68), unidentified (either O-2 or O-8), O-5 (SS-66), O-10 (SS-71) and O-4 (SS-65).
Large four-stacked ship in the left center distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 168KB; 1200 x 670 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46543

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

Keel laying ceremony, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 26 March 1917.
USS L-8 (Submarine # 48) is under construction in the left background. She was launched on 23 April 1917.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 570 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46709

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62), at left

Being prepared for launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 8 July 1918. She was launched on the following day.
At right, also under construction in the wooden shiphouse, is USS S-3 (Submarine # 107).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 46710

USS O-1
(Submarine # 62)

Ship's Sponsor poses with her bouquet, just before christening the submarine, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 9 July 1918. Just to the right is Rear Admiral Clifford J. Boush, Commandant of the Navy Yard. To the left, in white uniform, is Rear Admiral Spencer S. Woods, Commandant of the First Naval District.
Note sign in the upper left: "The American People Want Ships ... Not Excuses".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 555 pixels

 


USS O-1 is visible in the left distance in the following photograph, taken at about the same time as two of the views seen above:

Photo #: NH 42564

Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina


Seven "O" type submarines in drydock, circa 1919.
USS O-10 (Submarine # 71) is in the foreground. The most distant "boats" are O-1 (Submarine # 62) and O-3 (submarine # 64).
The drydock is in the process of being filled.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 


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


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Page made 31 January 2005
New image added 24 February 2006