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Photo #: NH 102635

Two U.S. Navy submarines and a bark under sail


Underway at sea in 1918. The original photograph identifies the submarines as USS O-3 (Submarine # 64) and USS O-4 (Submarine # 65) and the sailing vessel as USS Robert H. McCurdy (ID # 3157).
These three vessels operated together in Submarine Division Eight in the fall of 1918, with Robert H. McCurdy serving as a decoy to lure German U-Boats within torpedo range of the U.S. subs. However, Robert H. McCurdy was a four-masted schooner, not a bark as seen here. Since none of the other U.S. Navy decoy ships had a bark rig, the sailing vessel in this view is probably a merchantman.

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

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Image posted 20 December 2004