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Photo # NH 53608:  USS H-5 underway, circa 1922

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USS H-5 (Submarine # 148, later SS-148), 1918-1933

USS H-5, a 358-ton submarine was built at Groton, Connecticut, for the Russian Government, but her delivery was stopped by the 1917 revolution in that country. After being temporarily held in disassembled form at Vancouver, British Columbia, H-5 was purchased by the U.S. Navy in May 1918. Completed by the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, she was commissioned at the end of September 1918. For all but the last few months of her career H-5 was based at San Pedro, California, and operated along the West Coast. In October 1922, after transiting to Norfolk, Virginia, during the previous summer, the submarine was placed out of commission and laid up. USS H-5 was stricken from the Navy List in February 1931 and sold for scrapping in November 1933.

This page features, and provides links to, all the views we have concerning USS H-5 (Submarine # 148, later SS-148).

For more photographs related to this submarine, see:

  • USS H-5 (Submarine # 148, later SS-148) -- Interior Views.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 53608

    USS H-5
    (SS-148)

    Underway, circa 1922.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46750

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    View from the bridge, looking forward while the submarine was underway off San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    Note the radio antenna at the top, "Y-Tube" hydrophone mounted on the bow, limber holes drilled in the deck plating, and the small crane in the foreground.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 92KB; 430 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46762

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    View from the bridge, looking forward while the submarine was submerging off San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    Note the small crane in the foreground.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 430 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46760

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    View looking aft toward the fairwater, while the submarine was underway off San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    Note the large numerals "5" painted on both sides of the bridge, and radio antenna wires running from the raised antenna mast to the bow.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 41KB; 425 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46749

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    Crewman using a Corona typewriter while sitting on the bar of an "SC Tube" type hydrophone. Taken at San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    Note the submarine's fairwater in the immediate background.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 405 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46757

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    Crewman poses with submarine's "SC-Tube" hydrophone, mounted immediately in front of her fairwater. Taken at San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    Note the rubber heads on the ends of the hydrophone bar, lifelines at the deck edge, and limber holes drilled in the deck plating.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46758

    USS H-5
    (Submarine # 148)

    "Y-Tube" hydrophone mounted above the submarine's bow diving planes. Taken at San Pedro, California, circa 1919.
    Photographed by J. Edwin Hogg, Los Angeles, California.
    A crewman is demonstrating the flexibility of the rubber "rats" that housed the hydrophone's listening elements.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 445 pixels

     

    For more photographs related to this submarine, see:

  • USS H-5 (Submarine # 148, later SS-148) -- Interior Views.


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


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