Photo #: NH 65071
Scoter (American Motor Boat, 1916)
Passing USS L-1 (Submarine # 40) while underway, probably
in 1916.
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42) and USS Monaghan (Destroyer
# 32) are in the background.
This pleasure craft, built by George Lawley & Son of Neponset,
Massachusetts, became USS Scoter (SP-20) in 1917.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51127
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42)
With several other submarines at the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
Pennsylvania, 18 July 1917.
In the center background are Floating Derrick # 5 and
USS K-6 (Submarine # 37).
Note L-3's periscopes.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 60252
"L" type submarines
Alongside their tender, in British waters during World War I.
Tender is probably USS Bushnell. Location is probably
Berehaven, Ireland.
Submarines are (from left to right):
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42);
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51);
USS L-10 (Submarine # 50);
USS L-4 (Submarine # 43); and
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49).
Note differing forms of "chariot" bridges on these
submarines; white markings on their foredecks; and 3"/23
deck guns in retracted position, just forward of the submarines'
fairwaters.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51161
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42)
and
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40), at right
Alongside USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender # 2) at Berehaven,
Ireland, in 1918.
Note man walking on a plank between the two submarines; "SC-Tube"
hydrophone on L-3's foredeck; and L-1's retractable
3"/23 deck gun.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 752
USS L-1 (Submarine # 40)
Alongside USS L-3 (Submarine # 42) at Berehaven, Ireland,
1918. USS Nevada (Battleship # 36) is in the background.
Note L-1's 3"/23 deck gun.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51166
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49), at right
and
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42)
At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa February 1919.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51168
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42) - left;
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49) - center; and
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51) - right
At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa February 1919.
"Homeward-bound" pennant flying from L-9's periscope
indicates that this photo may have been taken as the submarines
arrived home following World War I service in British waters.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51167
"L" class submarines
Tied up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, with a harbor
tug outboard, circa February 1919.
Submarines are (from left to right):
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42);
USS L-9 (Submarine # 49);
USS L-11 (Submarine # 51); and
USS L-2 (Submarine # 41).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52222
USS Kanawha (Fuel Ship # 13, later AO-1)
Undergoing repairs in drydock, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard,
Pennsylvania, 3 March 1919.
USS L-3 (Submarine # 42) is alongside, at left.
Note Kanawha's rudder and port side propeller, and propellers
on L-3, whose rudder and after diving planes have been
removed.
Kanawha is still painted in World War I pattern camouflage.
Taken by Yard Photographer J.W. Replogle.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 52221
USS Kanawha (Fuel Ship # 13, later AO-1)
In drydock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 3 March
1919.
Two submarines are also in the drydock, with USS L-3 (Submarine
# 42) in the foreground.
Note that Kanawha is still painted in World War I pattern
camouflage.
Photographer is probably J.W. Replogle.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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