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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS L-6 (Submarine # 45, later SS-45), 1917-1925
USS L-6, a 456-ton L-5 class submarine built
at Long Beach, California, was commissioned in early December
1917. She operated briefly in West Coast waters before transiting
the Panama Canal en route to Charleston, South Carolina, where
she arrived in June 1918. In October of that year L-6 was
sent to the Azores, but the First World War ended just after she
began operations from those strategically-located islands. In
February 1919 the submarine returned to California, her base until
mid-1922. She then went back to the East Coast and was decommissioned
in November 1922. USS L-6 was sold for scrapping in December
1925.
This page features the only views we have concerning USS
L-6 (Submarine # 45, later SS-45).
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 51134
USS L-6 (Submarine # 45)
or
USS L-7 (Submarine # 46)
Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 April 1918.
This submarine has been fitted with the newly adopted "chariot
bridge".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103256
Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922
The Lake type USS L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left)
end of the nest, with her sister, USS L-7 (SS-46), in
the middle (3rd from left). USS H-3 (SS-30) is between
them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from
right. The inboard (right) "boat" and that in the foreground
are the other two units of the Lake-designed L-5 class,
USS L-5 (SS-44) and USS L-6 (SS-45).
Note piloting station details, periscope, and wide deck of the
Lake type "L-boat" in the foreground.
Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by
Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 455 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103255
Submarines at a West Coast port, circa 1919-1922
The Lake type USS L-8 (SS-48) is at the outboard (left)
end of the nest, with her sister, USS L-7 (SS-46), in
the middle (3rd from left). USS H-3 (SS-30) is between
them, with another Electric Boat Company submarine second from
right. The inboard "boat" and that in the foreground
are the other two units of the Lake-designed L-5 class,
USS L-5 (SS-44) and USS L-6 (SS-45).
Note the "Y-tube" hydrophone mounted on the bow of
the submarine in the foreground.
Collection of Chief Engineman Virgil Breland, USN. Donated by
Mrs. E.H. Breland, 1979.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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