This page features close-up and on board views of USS Argonaut and USS V-4 (SM-1, later APS-1) and views related to her construction.
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Photo #: NH 57635 USS V-4 (SM-1) Closeup view of the submarine's conning tower and after 6"/53 gun, taken as she was submerging, circa 1930. V-4 was renamed Argonaut in 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57636 USS V-4 (SM-1) Closeup view of the submarine's conning tower, taken as she was submerging, circa 1930. V-4 was renamed Argonaut in 1931. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 600 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 69206 USS V-4 (SM-1) Crewman training the submarine's forward 6"/53" deck gun, during shakedown tests off Provincetown, Massachusetts, 21 June 1928. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 84KB; 690 x 630 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 62906 USS Argonaut (SM-1) Gunnery exercises with the submarine's forward 6"/53 deck gun, during the 1930s. Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 450 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-11740 Makin Island Raid, August 1942 USS Argonaut (SM-1) docks at Pearl Harbor upon her return from the Makin raid, 26 August 1942. Marine Raiders and members of the submarine's crew are on deck. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-11736 Makin Island Raid, August 1942 Discussion on board USS Argonaut (SM-1) after she returned to Pearl Harbor from Makin Island, 26 August 1942. Those present are (from left to right): Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, USMC, Commander, Second Raider Battalion; Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, Executive Officer, Second Raider Battalion; and Lieutenant Commander John R. Pierce, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Argonaut. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 575 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-11741 USS Argonaut (SM-1) Crewmen reading their mail, after returning to Pearl Harbor from the Makin Island Raid, 26 August 1942. The gun behind them is a 6"/53. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-13879 Makin Island Raid, August 1942 A Marine Raider, injured during the Makin operation, is lifted through a hatch on USS Argonaut (SM-1) to be taken ashore at Pearl Harbor, 26 August 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 113KB; 595 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 70910 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine Waterfront and covered shipways, circa summer-fall 1927. USS V-4 (SM-1) and USS V-5 (SC-1) are under construction in inside shipways building. V-4 (later renamed Argonaut) is on the nearer way and appears to be nearly ready for her launching, which took place on 10 November 1927. V-5 (later renamed Narwhal) is in a much earlier stage of construction, having been laid down on 10 May 1927. USS S-13 (SS-118) and another "S"-type submarine are alongside the waterfront, at left. Note automobiles parked in the center and right. Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 70911 USS V-4 (SM-1) Ready for launching, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 10 November 1927. Courtesy of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 69136 USS V-4 (SM-1) Just before launching, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, on 10 November 1927. This view, taken from off the submarine's starboard quarter, shows the twin mine-launching tubes fitted to her stern, just below the waterline. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 69007 USS V-4 (SM-1) "Ready for commissioning at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 1928" (quoted from the original picture caption). Though this view might show the ship when ready for commissioning (which took place on 2 April 1928), it is more probable that it shows V-4 immediately after she was launched, at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, on 10 November 1927. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 590 pixels |
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For additional images related to this submarine, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 7 June 2003