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Orion - In Greek mythology, Orion was a giant huntsman whom Zeus (or perhaps Artemis) placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion. (Wikipedia)
Print of the copperplate engraving for Johann Bayer's Uranometria (1661) showing the constellation Orion, courtesy of the United States Naval
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USS Orion (AS-18) at Mare Island 22 and 23 November 1943 at the end of her post commissioning overhaul.
File name: AS18 7699-43, US Navy, 11/22/43 - Bow view of USS Orion (AS 18) departing Mare Island, 22 November 22, 1943 for bay trials
File name: AS18 7701-43, US Navy, 11/22/43 - Broadside view of USS Orion (AS 18), 22 November 22, 1943 on bay trials
File name: AS18 7702-43, US Navy, 11/22/43 - Stern view of USS Orion (AS 18), 22 November 22, 1943 on bay trials
File name: AS 18 7821-43, US Navy, 11/23/43 - Bow view of USS Orion (AS 18) moored at Mare Island, 23 November 1946. USS Celeno (AK-76) is berth to the right.
File name: AS 18 7824-43, US Navy, 11/23/43 - View of the after 5" gun mounts of the USS Orion (AS 18) while at Mare Island, 23 November 1943. |
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AS18 7701-43, 11/22/43 |
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AS18 7702-43, 11/22/43 |
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AS18 7821-43, 11/23/43 |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored at Saipan in September 1944, with 7 fleet-type submarines alongside.
Photo from "United States Submarine Operations In World War 11," by Theodore Roscoe |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored in berth S10 at Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, 30 Dec 1944, with submarines
USS Burrfish (SS-312) and
USS Piper (SS-409) alongside.
Photo by Eugene Smith, Life Magazine. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose. |
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USS Orion (AS-18), left and USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16)
, right, at anchor in New York Harbor, 27 October 1945, during the 1945 New York Naval Review.
Note the two destroyers passing astern of the two tenders, crews of tenders and destroyers manning the rail and the blimp passing above.
Photo from Operation Enduring Service |
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USS Orion (AS-18) at anchor or moored to a buoy, circa 1950, location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS Orion (AS-18) and nest of submarines take a brief rest in the Virgin Islands alongside docking facilities made available by local residents, date unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1954 |
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USS Orion (AS-18) at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. during a change of command ceremony with the following submarines alongside.
Inboard to outboard:
USS Sailfish (SSR-572),
probably, USS Cutlass (SS-478),
USS Runner (SS-476),
USS Cobbler (SS-344),
USS Argonaut (SS-475),
unidentified,
USS Requin (SSR-481), and
USS Barbero (SSG-317).
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 92321. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, March 1959 |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored at the D&S Piers, Naval Station Norfolk, VA.. Across the pier is USS Sirago (SS-485). Laying alongside Orion is an unidentified Sturgeon Class attack submarine.
Undated US Navy photo |
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USS Orion (AS-18) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1971. |
Stanley C. Svec and
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USSOrion (AS-18) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored while tending submarines, date and location unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) tending submarines, Naval Station Charleston, S.C., date unknown. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) arriving at Genoa, Italy, 22 January 1980. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS Orion (AS-18) tending submarines, forward deployed
at La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy. Orion is "Med Moored" at her berth on Santa Steffano Island about half way between "Mainland" Sardinia (off screen lower left) and the islands of La Maddalena and Capra (in the
background), circa 1983. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret and
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USS Orion (AS-18) forward deployed
at La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy. Orion is "Med Moored" at her berth on Santa Steffano Island, 30 September 1983. Crew members celebrate their ship's 40th birthday on the foredeck of USS Orion (AS-18), one of the Navy's oldest ships on active duty. Homeported in La Maddalena, Italy, Orion serves as flagship for Commander Submarine Refit Training Group, La Maddalena and Command Submarine Group Eight
US Navy photo. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) tending a submarine while forward deployed
at La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy, circa 1983. |
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Aerial view of USS Orion (AS 18) and USS Fulton (AS-11) moored side by side at La Maddalena, Sardinia in March 1985. Fulton (the oldest active ship in the fleet at the time, 43 years) relieved Orion for a period of 49 days so that Orion could receive needed maintenance and repairs. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) in her moorings at La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy in August 1987.
Photo by Wendell McLaughlin PN1 (SS), USN Ret. |
Wendell McLaughlin for his father Wendell McLaughlin PN1 (SS), USN Ret. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) and USS Key West (SSN-722), off Cartagena, Spain, 26 May 1990. |
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USS Orion (AS-18) moored to a buoy, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
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Starboard quarter view of the decommissioned ex-USS Orion (AS-18) in a dry dock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, VA., 26 August 1994. The ship yard is making sure the hull is water tight before moving the ship to storage.
Department of Defense photo # DN-SC-95-000679 a US Navy photo by Don Montgomery, now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil |
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Ex-USS Orion (AS-18) being prepared for preservation at Norfolk Naval Shipyard Portsmouth, VA., 8 September 1994. To the left of Orion is the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in overhaul.
Department of Defense photo # DN-SC-95-01396 a US Navy photo by Don Montgomery, now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil |
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Aerial view of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on the Elizabeth River, 25 March
1995. Ships in the yard, (L to R), the decommissioned Orion (AS-18), a destroyer under overhaul, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
USS George Washington (CVN-73), decommissioned submarine tender
Hunley (AS-31), the stripped-down hull of the decommissioned nuclear-powered guided missile
cruiser Virginia (CGN-38) and a medium auxiliary repair dock inside the large graving
dock at lower right.
Photo by Robert J. Sitar.
National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA), photo # 330-CFD-DN-SC-95-01523. |
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