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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2)
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Namesake
David Bushnell (30 August 1740 - 1824 or 1826) was an American inventor, a patriot, one of the first American combat engineers, a teacher, and a medical doctor. Bushnell
invented the first submarine to be used in battle, as well as a floating mine triggered by contact. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. (Wikipedia)
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Port bow view of USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.
US National Archives Identifier 55172692 Local Identifier 111-SC-5892 |
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Starboard broadside view of USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.
US National Archives Identifier 55172692 Local Identifier 111-SC-5892 |
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Starboard broadside view of USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 13 December 1916.
US National Archives Identifier 55172692 Local Identifier 111-SC-5892 |
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U.S. Naval Station Key West, FL., 26 December 1916.
Crane salvaged from Dry Tortugas May 1913, recently erected on south wall. Salvaged
engine from USS MacKenzie (Torpedo Boat #17) on wall. USS Bushnell (Submarine
Tender3 #2), USS Tallahassee, USCGC Tampa and submarines in distance. Looking northwest.
Photo from the Monroe County Library Collection. Photo courtesy of Florida Keys Public Libraries. Photo # MM00007621. |
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) underway circa 1910s, location unknown. |
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor probably Queenstown, Ireland, during Woruld War I. Photo post card mis-identified as
USS Melville. |
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor in Bantry Bay, Ireland, with "L" type submarines alongside, 1918.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 52856. |
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor hoisting
USS L-2, in Irish waters during World War I. Moored to Bushnell's port side are from left to right
USS L-4,
USS L-9 and
USS L-1 (Submarines Nos. 43, 49 and 40)
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61684, courtesy Shipscribe.com.
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor, circa 1918.
US Naval History and Heritage Command,
Photo No. NH 75663, courtesy Shipscribe.com.
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USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor at either Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, or Invergordon, Scotland, 1918 with a captured German
U-boat alongside.
Leon Knight, own work photo from a family scrapbook
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USS Bushnell (AS-2)
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) officers and crew posing on her forward superstructure, 27 August 1921. Panoramic photograph taken by
J.C. Crosby, 11 Portland Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Submarines
USS K-7 (SS-38),
USS K-4 (SS-35) and
USS K-6 (SS-37) are nested along Bushnell's port side, in the lower right of
this image.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 103194.
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Control Force submarines and their tenders at Cristobal, Panama
Canal Zone, circa 1923. The tenders are (from left to right): USS Savannah (AS-8),
USS Bushnell (AS-2), USS Beaver (AS-5) and USS Camden (AS-6). Submarines are mostly "R" type boats, among them USS R-23 (SS-100) and USS R-25 (SS-102), both in the nest alongside Savannah's port quarter. The larger submarine alongside Savannah's bow may be USS S-1 (SS-105), with her large seaplane hangar. Photo by A.E. Wells.
US Navy photo # NH 42573 courtesy of CDR. Christopher Noble, USN (Retired), 1967. From the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) tending submarines at Gonaives, Haiti, 1924.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 74633.
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) in the Thames River at New London, CT., May 26-28 1930, during Joint Army and Navy Minor maneuvers.
Blue Army planes in foreground, Coast Guard destroyers used for Prohibition enforcement moored at lower right.
U.S Army Air Corps photo # 18-AA-30-57 Mitchel Field L.I.N.Y., June 1930 U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under National Archives Identifier (NAID) 23936531 |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) circa late 1920s or early 1930s. At some time between 1924 and 1933 the open conning station above the
pilot house was enclosed, adding a level to the forward superstructure. The original of this image was a post card.
US Naval History and Heritage Command.
Photo # None, courtesy Shipscribe.com.
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) docked at a US naval facility in the Panama Canal Zone, 6 January 1933.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-455843, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) under way off Norfolk Navy Yard, circa early-1930s.
US Navy photo |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) anchored at San Diego, CA., early 1930s.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 65017. Original negative, donated by Mr. Franklin Moran in 1967..
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) under way, date and location unknown. |
Courtesy Randy Guttery Tendertales Web Site |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and location unknown |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Jim Kurrasch
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) under way, 31 October 1933, near Pearl Harbor flying a Rear Admiral's flag with "S" class submarines in
line of bearing passing in review with crews on deck in the background. Bushnell was serving at this time as flagship for Commander, Submarine Force,
U.S. Fleet.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # 80-G-1010805, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Bushnell (AS-2) off Curacao, Netherlands West Indies, on a survey mission circa 1938-1939. She had been reassigned to
surveying duty from the submarine force in December 1937 but retained her designation as a submarine tender (AS-2) until 1940.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 75665, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Sumner (AG-32)
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USS Sumner (AG-32), circa late 1941, after completing initial wartime modifications for surveying duty. The ship has
one 5"/51 gun on the fantail and four small 3"/23 AA guns, two forward and two aft. All of these guns plus some anti-aircraft machine guns (later replaced with
20mm guns) have splinter protection in the form of gun tubs.
US National Archives, RG-19-NS box 4, Photo # 19-N-27114 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in
the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Sumner (AGS-5)
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USS Sumner (AGS-5) moored at Pearl Harbor, circa 16 to 23 January 1946.
Also present are:
USS Bennington (CV-20) moored across the channel at NAS Ford Island,
USS Troilus (AKA-46) moored astern of,
USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109),
USS LST-1079 moored astern of
USS LST-1070
USS Terror (CM-5),
USS LST-459 with
LCT-1015 secured to her main deck, astern of
USS LST-863
Moored forward of LST-863 are an unidentified Minesweeper and two Rescue and Salvage ships
The next pier has two unidentified ships, possibly AKs the Survey Ship
USS Sumner (AGS-5), and two unidentified Minesweepers
USS LST-737 moored astern of
USS LST-45 moored astern of numerous Minesweepers and possibly
USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85)
US Navy photo BUAER photo # 496019 from "CINCPAC, Released 23 January 1946. |
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A "Short Snorter" issued by USS Sumner (AGS-5). The Operation Crossroads Short Snorters were part of Joint Operations Task Force One in which 37,000 sailors and 5,000 airmen participated in "watching" the world's 4th and 5th. nuclear explosions at Bikini Island on July 1, 1946 and July 25, 1946. See the The Short Snorters Project |
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Photographers at Bikini Atoll go ashore in an amphibious DUKW from USS Sumner (AGS-5) at anchor in the lagoon in the background. The Sumner's scientists and engineers did advance mapping and supervised the clearing of coral from landing points and anchorages before the arrival in the lagoon of Joint Army-Navy Task Force One for the atomic bomb tests.
Photo and text from "The National Geographic Magazine", July 1946. |
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USS Sumner (AGS-5) in San Francisco Bay between her arrival there, 24 May 1946, from the Far East and her departure,
9 July 1946 for the East Coast and decommissioning. Note in the process of upgrading her armament to more modern weapons in 1943 her after superstructure was
expanded.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 82204, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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