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0801927	NR	NEW BOAT CHRISTENED The Salmon (SS-19) was launched in Fore River, 12 March 1910 & sponsored by Eunice Fitzgerald, (1900–1923), the daughter of Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald.		Image and text provided by University of Vermont. Photo from The Barre Daily Times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 12 March 1910, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov via wikipedia.org
	284k	Sub Salmon (SS-19) launched in Fore River, 12 March 1910.		Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Ric Hedman. Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection via Sean Hert & flickr.com.
	866k	U.S. submarine torpedo boat Salmon (SS-19) just put into the water at Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Lack of leaves on trees, other D boats were launched latter in the year, and the trees would have had foliage. No bow planes clinches it as a D class.		Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Ric Hedman. Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection via Sean Hert & flickr.com.
	37k	Salmon (SS-19), the last of her class, introduced some features planned for the following E & F classes. Unlike the first two D-boats, she had only two bulkheads, one at the after end of the torpedo room and one at the fore end of the engine room. Pushing out the bulkheads left much more space in the control room (and thus simplified periscope arrangement), but it also made the compartments so large that the boat was unlikely to survive if any one of them was flooded. This decision, to arrange bulkheads for more efficient operation might explain why several U.S. subs were lost to collision during the 1920s. Quite aside from simplifying internal arrangement, placing the two periscopes very close to each other made it possible to brace both against vibration, a very serious problem in the Octopus class. The telescoping radio mast is visible at the other end of the conning tower fairwater. As in earlier E.B. designs, control rods for the planes and rudders were carried overhead, along the inside of the pressure hull. That is why the ship's wheel had to be suspended from the overhead, as is clear here, so it could connect to the appropriate rod.		Drawing by Jim Christley. Photo & text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
	53k	Navy submarines in port, circa 1909. Possibly photographed at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, these submarines are (from left to right): Tarpon (SS-14); either Narwhal (SS-17); or Salmon (SS-19); Snapper (SS-16); Stingray (SS-13); Bonita (SS-15); and Grayling (SS-18).		Photograph # NH 53776, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
	107k	Port side view of the Salmon (SS-19) underway, possibly off the New England coast, probably while running builder's trials, circa 1910.		USN photo from ussubvetsofwwii.org.
	614k	SUBMARINE ON LONG TRIP		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from The Washington Herald.(Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 11 July 1910, Image 3 & The Washington Times. (Washington [D.C.] 1902-1939, 03 July 1910, Sunday Evening Edition, Image 7, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.27k	Submarine Boat Salmon (SS-19) Making Record on Voyage Condemned as Fatal Folly.		Image and text provided by University of California, Riverside. Photo from Los Angeles Herald. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 11 July 1910, Image 1, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	399k	Submarines Grayling (SS-18) in tandem (in no order) Narwhal (SS-17) & Salmon (SS-19), probably summer 1910 or 1911.		Photo i.d. courtesy of Ric Hedman. Photographer: Enrique Muller Jr. National Archives Identifier: 45513797 Local Identifier: 165-WW-338B-052. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	977k	Uncle Sam Has Record-Breaker Submarine. The new submarine Salmon (SS-19), which will soon be turned over to the government, has broke all records by making, unattended an ocean trip of several hundred miles. She left ProvincetownMA, and arrived in Bermuda, making an average speed of eight an one half miles an hour.		Image and text provided by Washington State Library; Olympia, WA.& Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN. Photo from The Tacoma Times. (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 03 August 1910, Image 6,& PDF from The Appeal. (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1889-19??, 22 October 1910, Image 1, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	681k	UNCLE SAM'S NEWEST SUBMARINE		Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from Perrysburg Journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio] 186?-1965, 21 October, 1910, Image 6, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	375k	Salmon (SS-19) circa 1911.		Photo courtesy of Ric Hedman.
	2.76k	Tender Severn, Snapper (SS-16), Tarpon (SS-14), Bonita (SS-15), Salmon (SS-19), Stingray (SS-13) in Dry Dock # 2, Navy Yard Norfolk VA., 24 February 1911. Time to prepare dock 8 hours: Dock commenced to flood 8:30 AM. Yard workmen taking off manhole plate 12:30 PM. Between 1 November 1910 and 12 January 1911, South Carolina (BB-26) voyaged to Europe and back with the 2d Battleship Division. This visit took her to Cherbourg, France, and Portland, England. Upon her return to Norfolk, she entered the navy yard for repairs, and then conducted tactics training and maneuvers off the New England coast. The South Carolina is the battleship in the background.		Partial text courtesy of DANFS. US National Archives photo from National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert.
	2.47k	Tender Severn, Snapper (SS-16), Tarpon (SS-14), Bonita (SS-15), Salmon (SS-19), & Stingray (SS-13) in Dry Dock # 2, Navy Yard Norfolk VA., 24 February 1911. Time to prepare dock 8 hours: Dock commenced to flood 8:30 AM. Yard workmen taking off manhole plate 12:30 PM. both times. Note the # 32 on the sail of the Salmon.		US National Archives photo from National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland, courtesy of Sean Hert.
	528k	SUBMARINE THAT TOOK PART IN GREAT RECORD SWIM		Image and text provided by University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI. Photo from Evening Bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912, 22 July 1911, 3:30 EDITION, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.25k	In Wake of Craft That Cleaves the Depths Lie Many Dead Pioneers Experiments That Led Up to Wonderful Feat of a Squadron of American Submarines the Other Day Have Cost Hundreds of Lives and Millions of Money.		Embedded text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press. PDF Image and text provided by Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Photo from New-York Tribune. (New York [N.Y.] 1866-1924, 2 July 1911, Image 17, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	1.44k	The Salmon (SS-19),Grayling (SS-18), Tarpon (SS-14), Octopus (SS-9), Bonita (SS-15) with the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) in the background on 28 October 1911.		Digital ID # 2162989549_03ac37e6c6_o, LC-B2-2335-13. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen.
	1.44k	Bow of the tender Severn and her charges: Salmon (SS-19), Grayling (SS-18), Tarpon (SS-14), Octopus (SS-9), Bonita (SS-15) with the battleship Nebraska (BB-14) in the background on 28 October 1911.		Digital ID # 2163790702_9293e5e616_o. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, from the George Grantham Bain Collection, courtesy of Tom Kermen.
	2.19k	Submarines and their tender The time frame is circa pre-November 1911. Location is possibly New York Harbor. The picture shows the Severn with 4 of the C class submarines lying along her port side, Tarpon (SS-14), Octopus (SS-9), Bonita (SS-15), and Stingray (SS-13) and what are most likely all the D class (in no particular order) on her starboard side: Narwhal (SS-17), Grayling (SS-18) & Salmon (SS-19).		Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Ric Hedman. Photo from loc.gov
	140k	The internal helm stand of a voice tube on a D-class boat (SS-17/18/19). The watertight door to the torpedo room is seen to the right of the helm wheel. The helm wheel motor is attached via gearing to the transmission shaft, which ran aft to the rudder linkage. Directly above the helm wheel is a mirror into which the helmsman looked to obtain a view of the magnetic compass repeater above. Normal steering was by an electric switch that operated the motor.		The photo is on page 42 of "United States Submarines" by the Naval Submarine League. Photo submitted by Darryl L. Baker.
	101k	Crew posed on deck of the D-3 (SS-19) while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911. William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".		Photograph # NH 58514, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
	99k	Crew posed on deck of the D-3 (SS-19) while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911. William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".		Photograph # NH 58515, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center, Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
	108k	Crew posed on deck of the D-3 (SS-19) while cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911. William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, was on board at the time. He gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days".		Photograph # NH 58516, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
	101k	William D. Crowell, an architect from St. Louis, Missouri, standing on deck, while D-3 (SS-19) was cruising out of Newport, Rhode Island, in October 1911. Mr. Crowell gave this photograph to Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1944, in reminiscence of the "old days". Nimitz, who commanded the submarine's "mother ship" at the time, had invited him on the cruise.		Photograph # NH 58517, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
	521k	D-3 (SS-19) underway, starboard side view, at the Naval Review at New York City, 4 October 1912. Kearsarge (BB-5) is in the background. Note the "E" award displayed on D-3's conning tower.		National Archives Identifier: 45513753 Local Identifier: 165-WW-338B-030 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	62k	A number of boats homeported in Key West had squadron numbers in the "2" over some number sequence. Identifiable boats are: (2nd from the left) D-2 (SS-18), (middle) D-3 (SS-19), (2nd from the right) E-2 (SS-25).		Photo courtesy of The US Navy Submarine Force Museum via Ric Hedman.
0801818d	710k	A C or D-class boat diving, not surfacing, in spite of what the caption says, circa 1913.		Photo & text i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston. Photos courtesy of Sponsors of the United States navy; Benham, Edith Wallace, comp; Hall, Anne Martin, comp 1797-1913, pg. 94, courtesy of Boston Public Library.
	387k	D-3 (SS-19) underway submerged, with periscope trained on the camera, 25 April 1918. Photographed by Underwood & Underwood.		National Archives Identifier: 45513812 Local Identifier: 165-WW-338B-59. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	1.84k	D-3 (SS-19) "Coming to the Surface". Note the submarine "fish" flag atop her after periscope.		Text courtesy of USNHC photograph # NH 102649 photographed by N. Moser, New York, and Enrique Muller, Jr. Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd via Robert Hurst. National Archives Identifier: 45513797 Local Identifier: 165-WW-338B-58. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	101k	D-3 (SS-19) underway, prior to World War I. Photograph by Enrique Muller, printed in the book "Our Navy in the War", by Lawrence Perry, 1922.		Photograph # NH 82569, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.
	377k	"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): D-2 (SS-18); D-1 (SS-17); and D-3 (SS-19). The two at left are probably (in no particular order) E-1 (SS-24) and E-2 (SS-25).		Photograph # NH 78926 from the U.S. Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN (Medical Service Corps), 1973. Photo courtesy of ussnewyork.com.
	626k	Photograph shows US submarines moored at the 135th street pier on the Upper West Side of New York City as part of the Presidential review of the Atlantic Fleet. The picture shows the Tonopah (M-8) in the center, with the submarines E-1 (SS-24), E-2 (SS-25), D-2 (SS-18), D-1 (SS-17) and D-3 (SS-19) lying from left to right alongside the dock at 135th street.		Digital Source: Bain News Service. LOC photo # LC-B2-3481-14 / 19118v from lcweb2.loc.gov.
0801816	1.04k	A D class submarine loading torpedoes, circa 1915-20.		Photo courtesy of loc.gov, courtesy of the Bain News Service. Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-24779.
0801817	2.35k	Canvas bridge over # 33.		Photo courtesy of loc.gov, courtesy of the National Photo Company. Reproduction Number LC-DIG-npcc-19751.
	520k	VANGUARD OF ATLANTIC FLEET FOR PRESIDNTIAL REVIEW IN NEW YORK These vessels led the Atlantic fleet which arrived in New York for the big review by President Wilson. The picture shows the Tonopah (M-8) in the background, with the submarines E-1 (SS-24), E-2 (SS-25), D-2 (SS-18), D-1 (SS-17) and D-3 (SS-19) lying from left to right alongside the dock at 135th street. On recount of the activities of the submarines in the European War, these little under-the-water craft of the United States navy are coming in for a great deal of interest by the public.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo from Evening Public Ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.] 1914-1942, 08 May 1915, Night Extra, Image 18, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	967k	Replacing the torpedo in the tube. The torpedo has a propeller and operates somewhat like a little submarine. The Germans used it with deadly accuracy on unprotected merchant vessels.		Photo by Enrique Muller from the "Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War Vol. XI", Children's Book of War, courtesy of Bill Gonyo.
	608k	Loading a torpedo on D-3 (SS-19).		Photographer: Kadel & Herbert. National Archives Identifier: 45514081 Local Identifier: 165-WW-339C-51. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	166k	Crew of the D-3 (SS-19) recovering a torpedo. The boat alongside with the T on the bow is most likely from the D-3's tender Tonopah (M-8).		Photo by Enrique Muller, # HD-SN-99-02141 from the WAR & CONFLICT CD series from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston.
	625k	Torpedo recovery on D-3 (SS-19), 1 July 1915.		Photographer: E. Muller, New York, N.Y. National Archives Identifier: 45510074 Local Identifier: 165-WW-321C-49. Insert photo National Archives Identifier: 45513993 & Local Identifier: 165-WW-339C-8. Photos courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	NR	BUILDING NEW SUBMARINES TO DEFEND AMERICAN COAST Submarine G-2 (SS-27) laid up for repairs. Submarine commanders—(a) K. Robottem, D-2 (SS-18),(b) C. M. Cooke, E-2 (SS-25), (c) T.Withers, commander second division of submarines, (d) Yates Stirling, commander, Atlantic squadron of submarines)(e), R. S. Fay, D-3 (SS-19), (f)E. C. Metz, D-1 (SS-17).		Image and text provided by State Historical Society of North Dakota. Photo from Grand Forks Daily Herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 02 August 1915, Image 11, via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	379k	OUR OWN SUBMARINES SHOW EFFICIENCY IN TRYING TIMES		Image and text provided by The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation. Photo & text by The Sun. (New York [N.Y.] 1833-1916, 26 September 1915, FOURTH SECTION PICTORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 35, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	52k	Halftone reproduction of a photograph by N. Moser and Enrique Muller, Jr., showing the D-3 (SS-19) underway submerged, circa 1916, with her periscope trained on the camera. It is printed on an advertising blotter. Note the submarine "fish" flag.		Photograph # NH 77469, courtesy of the U.S. Naval Historical Center donated by Commander Donald J. Robinson, USN(MSC), 1973.
	640k	Port broadside view of the D-3 (SS-19).		Photo from the files of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum courtesy of Darryl L. Baker, possibly by Enrique Muller from the "Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War Vol. XI", Children's Book of War.
	838k	LOADING A U.S. SUBMARINE WITH GIANT TORPEDOES One of Uncle Sam's submarines is here seen taking on a cargo of mammoth torpedoes. Great care must be taken in the handling of these sensitive pieces of destruction.		Image and text provided by Penn State University Libraries; University Park, PA. Photo & text by Evening Public Ledger. (Tacoma, Wash.) (Philadelphia [Pa.] 1914-1942, 02 July 1918, Sports Extra, Image 9, courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
	380k	D-3 (SS-19) alongside a dock with other submarines on an icy day, circa 1918. Location is probably the Submarine Base at Groton, Connecticut. D-3 appears to be wearing pattern camouflage. Other submarines present are (moving outward from D-3: D-1 (SS-17); G-4 (SS-26); and G-3 (SS-31).		Photograph # NH 99157 via Robert Hurst.
	549k	U.S. submarine going to sea for practice, circa 1918: From right to left, two subs in the photo to the right, You can just see the sterns and a flag. Class/s unknown. D-boat in mid-river. She is ballasted down aft so that her props, rudder, and aft diving planes clear the ice in the river. Next to pier is the G-3 (SS-31), the other two boats alongside the pier are actually EB design N-class boats, ( N-1, 2 & 3). The arrangement of the towing fairlead bullnose, the towing shackle, and the bow plane arrangement all match EB design N-boats. You can see Conn College on the hill in the background.		Photo & text i.d. courtesy of David Johnston & Ric Hedman. Photographer: Western Newspaper Union. National Archives Identifier: 45512000 Local Identifier: 165-WW-331E-7. Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	483k	U.S. SUBMARINE READY TO start its regular morning practice trip. New London, Conn. Unknown D-boat underway.		Photo i.d. courtesy of Ric Hedman. Photographer: Western Newspaper Union. National Archives Identifier: 45513803 Local Identifier: 165-WW-338B-055 Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
	77k	The eyepiece of D-3's (SS-19) hull periscope is shown. The nearby handwheel was geared to turn the barrel of the periscope against the strong resisting forces of the sea and of the packing that kept the barrel's penetration through the hull watertight. Above the handwheel the ring gear attached to the periscope barrel is clearly visible. Note also the plane wheel visible at lower right is connected by belt to the rod in the overhead that actually control the plane, as in earlier E.B. submarines.		Photo courtesy of Submarine Force Museum & Library. Text courtesy of U.S. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Naval Institute Press.
	832k	D-3 (SS-19), at left, and D-2 (SS-18) center at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 5 March 1919, with shipyard workmen on board. Note the ventilating fans on D-3's deck. A derrick barge is alongside D-2. Among the four submarines visible in the background are L-1 (SS-40), L-4 (SS-43) and L-10 (SS-50). A motorcycle is parked at the far left.		USNHC photograph # NH 51157.
	74k	Admiral Francis Stuart Low was born in Albany, New York, on 15 August 1894, son of the late Commander William Franklin Low, USN, and Mrs. Anna (Stuart) Low. He attended High School in Newton, Massachusetts and US Naval Academy, graduating from the latter with the Class of 1915. In 1926 he completed the junior course at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. His first assignments after graduation were in the battleship Connecticut (BB-18) and cruiser Montana (ACR-13). In the early part of his illustrious career, he was designated a submariner, and commanded the submarines D-3 (SS-19), O-9 (SS-70), L-1 (SS-40), L-2 (SS-41), S-12 (SS-117), and served on the staffs of Commander Submarine Division FIVE and Commander Control Force during and subsequent to World War One. This continuous sea duty from 1915 to 1925 was briefly interrupted for a six months assignment with the Tactical Group Submarine Chasers, New London, Connecticut.		Text & USN photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo.

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