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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS O-9 (Submarine # 70, later SS-70), 1918-1941
USS O-9, a 521-ton O-1 class submarine built
at Quincy, Massachusetts, was placed in commission in late July
1918. She patrolled against German submarines off the U.S. Atlantic
Coast for the next several months and had begun a deployment to
the Azores when the 11 November 1918 Armistice ended World War
I's fighting. O-9 returned home soon afterwards and spent
more than a decade serving in the western Atlantic and Panama
Canal Zone areas, mainly on training duty. She was decommissioned
in June 1931 and laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.
O-9 was brought back into active service by the National
Emergency that accompanied the Second World War in Europe. Recommissioned
in mid-April 1941, she was sent to New London, Connecticut, to
resume service as a training submarine. While undergoing tests
on 20 June 1941 O-9 failed to surface after a dive. Salvage
ships located her in more that 400 feet of water, but she had
suffered crushing damage from the water pressure at that depth
and all 33 men on board had been killed. O-9's remains
have subsequently been surveyed for historical purposes, most
recently in September 2004.
This page features all the views we have concerning USS
O-9 (Submarine # 70, later SS-70).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 44555
USS O-9 (Submarine # 70)
Afloat immediately after launching, at the Fore River Shipbuilding
Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 27 January 1918.
Note the icy water.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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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.
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Photo #: NH 93672
Six "O" type submarines
Nested alongside a pier, in the Central American or Caribbean
area, circa 1923-1924. USS O-6 (SS-67) and USS O-9
(SS-70) are the two outboard submarines.
USS Quail (AM-15) is also alongside the pier, in the left
background.
Courtesy of the Estate of Virginia Cornwell, 1982.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 102780
USS Jason (AC-12)
At Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1924.
Several submarines are in the foreground, including (from left
to right):
USS S-19 (SS-124);
USS O-9 (SS-70);
USS R-26 (SS-103) -- probably--; and
USS O-2 (SS-63).
Courtesy of Chief Boatswain's Mate George Behrens, USN (Retired),
1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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