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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS E-2 (Submarine # 25, later SS-25), 1912-1922. Originally
named Sturgeon
USS E-2, a 287-ton E-1 class coastal submarine
built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in February 1912.
While under construction she was called Sturgeon, but was
renamed in November 1911. Employed on experimental and training
duties during her early service, E-2 operated in the Caribbean
and Gulf of Mexico in January-April 1914, and in Florida waters
in February-May 1915. Following a hydrogen explosion in January
1916 that killed four men and injured others, she was decommissioned
and used for battery tests. E-2 returned to active service
in March 1918 and conducted anti-U-Boat patrols off the U.S. East
Coast during the rest of World War I. Again used for training
after the conflict's end, the submarine was decommissioned in
October 1921 and sold in April 1922.
This page features all the views we have related to USS
E-2 (Submarine # 25), which was named Sturgeon while
under construction.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 99186
USS Sturgeon (Submarine # 25)
Underway, probably during trials, circa late summer or fall 1911.
This submarine was renamed E-2 in November 1911, prior
to commissioning.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 99185
USS E-2 (Submarine # 25)
Fine screen halftone reproduction of a photograph of the submarine
underway prior to World War I.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 41947
USS E-2 (Submarine # 25)
Underway, probably in New York Harbor during the October 1912
naval review.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 78919
USS E-2 (Submarine # 25)
Crewmembers atop the submarine's conning tower, after returning
from a patrol during World War I.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut,
1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 78920
USS Helvetia (SP-3096)
Under sail, as seen from the submarine USS E-2 (SS-25),
during an anti-submarine patrol in 1918.
Helvetia, a former civilian schooner, was intended to
serve as decoy ship to entice German submarines to surface and
attack her with gunfire, hereupon the U.S. Navy submarine, following
submerged, would torpedo the enemy U-Boat.
Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut,
1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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The submarines on the left side of the following photograph
are probably USS E-2 and her sister,
USS E-1 (Submarine # 24):
Photo #: NH 78926
"U.S. Submarines awaiting Orders"
Halftone reproduction, printed on a postal card, of a photograph
of five submarines nested together prior to World War I. The
three "boats" at right are (from center to right):
USS D-2 (Submarine # 18); USS D-1 (Submarine #
17); and USS D-3 (Submarine # 19). The two at left are
probably (in no particular order) USS E-1 (Submarine #
24) and USS E-2 (Submarine # 25).
Courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Medical Service
Corps), 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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