Specifications:
Displacement 450 t.
Length 137'
Beam 26'
Draft 9' 6"
Speed 10 kts.
Complement unknown
Armament 2 3-pdrs
Propulsion steam, single screw
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80k | USS Fortune off Boston, MA, 29 October 1902. She had just completed a tour of duty with the training station at Newport, RI, and was about to proceed to the Pacific where she became a submarine tender. US. National Archives, RG-19-A-1, Photo # 19-N-16-21-1 a US Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green | |
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1376k | From left to right USS Fortune, USS Grampus (Submarine No.4), USS Pike (Submarine No.6) and the Receiving Ship USS Independence at Mare Island Navy Yard, 23 April 1904. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 329-4-1904, Navy Photo, 4/23/1904 |
Darryl Baker | |
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239k | Stern view of USS Fortune at Mare Island, 23 July 1904. The Receiving Ship USS Independence can be seen in the background. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 374, 7/23/04 |
Darryl Baker | |
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146k | From left to right USS Pike, USS Fortune and USS Grampus in Dry Dock #1 at Mare Island, circa 19-20 August 1906. These vessels were in dock together from August 13 to August 20, 1906. The stack and mast of the USS Wyoming is in the background in the left hand corner. | 140801106 - Darryl Baker 14081107 - Christian Galloway |
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380k | USS Fortune is astern of Unadilla which is to the left of USS Ontario (Fleet Collier No. 2) entering the water for first time during her launching at Mare Island, 5 December 1908. USS Active is to the far right. US Navy photo. | Darryl Baker | |
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345k | USS Fortune is made up to the port bow of USS Ontario (Fleet Collier No. 2) immediately her after launching, 5 December 1908, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA.. US Navy photo. | Darryl Baker | |
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71k | USS Fortune stands by as USS Grampus, largely submerged, engages in a torpedo firing exercise off San Diego, CA., 21 July 1910. The original photo was printed on post card ("AZO") stock by Lee Passmore, Post Card Artist, 25th & M Sts., San Diego US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 104702-KN, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007. |
Robert Hurst | |
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365k | USS Fortune moored with two submarines (probably Grampus and Pike) alongside, circa 1909-1912. | Dave Wright | |
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119k | Photo caption indicates that USS Fortune is alongside the Armored Cruiser USS Maryland (ACR-8) tending submarines during torpedo practice at San Pedro in 1913.
Post card photo by McDaniel, publisher unknown. |
Darryl Baker | |
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108k | USS Fortune underway, exact date and location unknown. Photograph by McDaniel, printed on post card stock (postmarked 06 October 1914). | Dave Wright | |
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74k | USS Fortune underway off San Diego, CA prior to World War I. Photographed by the Arcade View Company. Note that this tug is flying a 13-star "Boat" flag.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 92205. Collection of Thomas P. Naughton, 1973. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | |
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186k | USS Fortune hauled out of the water on a marine railway at Suva, Fiji in 1916. Photograph by L.C. Sims, printed on post card stock. Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2007.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 104602 |
Robert Hurst | |
USS Fortune (YT-11)
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