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Magazine Loch, Pearl Harbor pictured c December 1944...USS Dionne DE-261 & USS McClelland DE-750 are seen along with an unidentified Fleet Submarine in the foreground..An unidentified Submarine Tender with two more Submarines alongside are seen in the background.
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Steam Yacht USS Hawk pictured at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, while being prepared for Spanish-American War service, c April 1898. She was the converted British-built civilian yacht Hermione of 1891, acquired for service as a Patrol Yacht in the Spanish–American War. She later served in the Ohio and New York naval militias and on the Great Lakes until decommissioned in 1940...Hermione was designed by Glasgow naval architect George L. Watson and built by Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, Scotland, in 1891 for James and Richard Allan of the Allen Line, Glasgow..In June 1895 she was chartered to the American businessman Robert Goelet.She was later sold to the American politician and manufacturer, Henry L. Pierce. Hermione was purchased by the USN on April 2nd 1898, renamed Hawk, and commissioned three days later, Lt. John Hood in command. She sailed from Key West in late April 1898 to join the North Atlantic Squadron in blockading Cuba during the Spanish–American War. On May 23rd she accompanied Admiral Sampson's flagship New York (ACR-2) out from Key West. Two weeks later she attacked and destroyed enemy ship Alphonso XII, which carried cargo for Cuba. In late summer she departed for Norfolk where she decommissioned on September 14th 1898. Recommissioned in 1900, she was loaned to the Ohio Naval Militia where she served for nine years. On August 3rd 1909 Hawk was transferred to the Naval Militia of New York, and served for 10 years in the Buffalo area. She decommissioned on May 21st 1919 and joined the Reserve Fleet. After World War I, she was reclassified as PY-2, and again redesignated IX-14 on July 1st 1921...Once again the 'ol' girl' was recommissioned on April 16th 1922 and was assigned to the 9th Naval District. She operated in the Great Lakes area for the duration of her service. She decommissioned on February 14th 1940 and was sold on February 25th to the Indiana Salvage Co., Michigan City, Indiana...* Note..is that a 'porta loo' next to the office?.I did not think they were around in that era..
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Lead Ship, Destroyer Tender USS Cascade pictured with Allen M Sumner Class Destroyers USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697),USS Moale (DD-693) and Gato Class Submarine USS Pompon (SSR-267) along side. Ships in the background include left to right: USS Randolph (CVA-15), USS Waccamaw (AO-109), USS Mississinewa (AO-144) and two unidentified auxiliaries, at anchor in the Mediterranean, on September 12th 1956.
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12 inch and 14 inch gun tubes and barrels pictured being machined at Bethlehem Steel Co Gun Shop in 1918...On the right, a rifling head and bar is about to commence the rifling of a 14 inch barrel.
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B Class Submarine USS Cuttlefish pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard on March 25th 1908.
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Adder Class Submarine USS Shark pictured with sister USS Porpoise astern of her, in Dry Dock No 1 at Brooklyn Navy Yard on March 23rd 1905.
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Collier USS Mars pictured at Washington Navy Yard on January 16th 1916.
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Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Iowa pictured at Brooklyn Navy Yard c1899.
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Barracuda Class Submarine USS Bonita pictured at Boston Navy Yard in July 1926......*Note...USS Constitution pictured in the background.
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Lead Ship, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship USS Kearsarge pictured c1901...Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Virginia, on June 30th 1896. She was launched on March 24th 1898, and commissioned on February 20th 1900. Between 1903 and 1907 Kearsarge served in the North Atlantic Fleet, and from 1907 to 1909 she sailed as part of the Great White Fleet. In 1909 she was decommissioned for modernization, which was finished in 1911. In 1915 she served in the Atlantic, and between 1916 and 1919 she served as a Training Ship. She was converted into a crane ship in 1920, renamed Crane Ship No 1 in 1941, and sold for scrap in 1955. She was the only USN Battleship to not be named after a state.
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