Photo #: NH 53859
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Placing runners in preparation for moving the submarine across
Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California. Taken on
2 April 1917 during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53848
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Placing runners to facilitate moving her across Samoa Beach to
Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California. Taken on 2 April 1917
during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53850
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California
on 6 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser
Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber
structure that supported the submarine during the move.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53849
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Moving the submarine off Samoa Beach, near Eureka, California
at 250 feet per hour. Taken 6 April 1917, during salvage operations
by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note what appears to be a camera at the right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53851
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California
on 6 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser
Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note the log and timber structure that supported the submarine
during the move.
Courtesy of Captain Ray Spear, 1931.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53852
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Being moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California
on 12 April 1917, during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser
Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note that H-3's rotating bow cap has been turned to expose
one of her port torpedo tube muzzles.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53855
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Being moved across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka,
California on 13 April 1917, during salvage operations by the
Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber
structure that supported the submarine during the move.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53854
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Seen from almost directly ahead on 13 April 1917, while being
moved off Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California,
during salvage operations by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note the wooden runners laid across the sand to provide a track
for rolling the submarine.
H-3's rotating bow cap has been turned to expose two of
her torpedo tube muzzles.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53853
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Being moved across Samoa Beach to Humboldt Bay, near Eureka,
California on 13 April 1917, during salvage operations by the
Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
Note the rollers and wooden runners below the log and timber
structure that supported the submarine during the move.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53856
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Seen from ahead while ready for launching into Humboldt Bay,
near Eureka, California, on 20 April 1917, after being moved
across the peninsula from Samoa Beach by the Mercer-Fraser Company.
Photographed by the Freeman Art Company, Eureka.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53857
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Seen from off her port side, looking forward, as she was launched
into Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California, on 20 April 1917,
after being moved across the peninsula from Samoa Beach by the
Mercer-Fraser Company.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 53858
USS H-3 (Submarine # 30)
Naval officers and civilians on board the submarine, just after
she was relaunched into Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California,
on 20 April 1917. H-3 had been moved across the peninsula
from Samoa Beach by the Mercer-Fraser Company, of Eureka. The
civilians present are probably connected to that firm.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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