v-boats

The V-Boats

USS V-1 SS 163
Photo contributed by Ron Martini

USS Submarine V-1 leaving Portsmouth Navy Yard for Provincetown
Nov. 13, 1924

USS V-1 SS 163 (ex-Barracuda)

USS Barracuda SS 163 (ex-V-1) photographed circa 1943.

USS V-2 SS 164 (ex-Bass)

USS V-2 SS 164

USS Bonita (V-3) and USS Bass (V-2) in 1931

USS V-3 SS 165 (ex-Bonita) shown just after launch.

USS V-3 with tugs along side after launch
Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.

V-3 hauled on on a marine railway for upkeep

V-3 hauled out on a marine railway for upkeep

USS V-1, USS V-2 & USS V-3 (not necessarily in that order) along side the tender

USS Argonaut SS 166 (ex-V-4)

USS Argonaut SS 166

USS O-2 and USS V-4 (Argonaut) in dry dock, March 29, 1928.
Dry dock is flooding through openings in dry dock doors, at rear.

USS V-4 (Argonaut) leaving dry dock, March 29, 1928.

USS Argonaut SS 166

HEROES RETURN --Marine raiders line the deck of the U.S. Submarine from which they conducted their surprise raid on Makin Island as the ship pulls into Pearl Harbor. Submarine officers who took part in the successful attack look down from the conning tower as they come into the harbor to receive the "well done" accolade from their Commander-in-chief in the Pacific, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN.
USMC 2nd Raider Battalion, is shown standing on the deck of the USS Argonaut SS 166 returning from their mission to the Gilbert Islands. On August 17-18, 1942, a force of 221 Marines from the 2nd Raider Battalion, named "Carlson's Raiders" for its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, landed from two submarines on Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll. The raid inflicted heavy damage and forced the Japanese to divert troops from reinforcing Guadalcanal.
Argonaut was sunk with all hands on January 10,1943. An Army aircraft witnessed her final battle with 3 destroyers guarding a convoy Argonaut was attacking. Saw her bow break water after a severe depth charge attack and receive unrelenting gun fire until she sank with all 105 men and officers.

USS Argonaut (ex-V-4) (SS-166)
Crewmen reading their mail, after returning to Pearl
Harbor from the Makin Island Raid, 26 August 1942.
The gun behind them is a 6"/53.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

USS V-5 (Narwhal) Pre-Launch Photo
Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.

Nautilus, Argonaut and Narwhal. The Narwhal can just be seen to the right
in this photo. Her conning tower fairwater has the N -1 in a black block on it.
V - 6, V - 4 & V - 5 all together.

USS Narwhal SS 167 (ex-V-5)

USS Narwhal SS 167 (ex-V-5) in heavy seas. circa 1930's

USS Narwhal SS 167

Crewman A.L. Rosenkotter of USS V-5 (SC-1)
demonstrates the use of the submarine's after
escape hatch and the emergency escape "lung",
during V-5's, (Narwhal's) builders seatrials, July 1930.

Narwhal during Pearl Harbor attack. Gun crews on deck wait for
Japanese planes to come close enough to fire on. Narwhal shared credit
with several other ships for downing a Japanese torpedo bomber. Sailors
on the dock wait with rifles to shoot at the attackers. One has fixed a bayonet.

USS Nautilus SS 168 (ex-V-6) shown with the S-22

Nautilus SS 168 and Growler SS 215 in dry dock,
Pearl Harbor, July 28, 1942

Floating drydock YFD-2 is at left, with USS Alywin (DD-355) inside. Small drydock in center holds USS Growler (SS-215) and USS Nautilus (SS-168). USS Litchfield (DD-336) and an ARD floating drydock are in Drydock # 2, in right center. Drydock # 1, at right, contains USS West Virginia (BB-48). Submarines partially visible alongside 1010 Dock, in the extreme upper right, are USS Trout (SS-202) and USSPollack (SS-180).

USS Dolphin SS 169 (ex- V-7)

USS V-7 keel laying, June 14, 1930.

Left to right:A. Magg, Quarterman Shipfitter; A.V. Curtis, Ch. Draftsman; J.H. Morrill, Master Painter; T.J. Gamester, Master Boiler Maker; F.E. Getchell, Master Boat Builder; W.J. Monagle, Master Molder; R. J. Gilker, Master Rigger; Capt. D.F. Boyd, U.S.N.; A.M. Clark, Master Shipwright.

Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H.

USS Dolphin SS 169

USS Cachalot SS 170 (ex- V-8)

C-1, USS Cachalot SS 170 (ex- V-8)
She looks to be moored someplace in the Caribbean or Panama, most likely mid 1930's.

C-1, USS Cachalot SS 170 (ex- V-8)
She looks to be moored someplace in the Caribbean or Panama, most likely mid 1930's.

C-1, USS Cachalot SS 170 (ex- V-8)
She looks to be moored someplace in the Caribbean or Panama, most likely mid 1930's.

C-1, USS Cachalot SS 170 (ex- V-8)
She looks to be moored someplace in the Caribbean or Panama, most likely mid 1930's.
Bedding is being aired. Topside watch is looking around the back of the conning towwer fairwater

USS Cuttlefish SS 171 (ex- V-9)

USS Cuttlefish SS 171

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