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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Porpoise''''' was one of seven [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|''Plunger'' (or "A") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].  She commissioned alongside her sister {{UK-Shark}} at the Holland Torpedo Boatyard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September, 1903, with Lieutenant [[Charles Preston Nelson|Charles P. Nelson]] in joint command.
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Porpoise''''' was one of seven [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|''Plunger'' (or "A") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].   
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''Porpoise'' commissioned alongside her sister {{US-Shark}} at the Holland Torpedo Boatyard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September, 1903, with Lieutenant [[Charles Preston Nelson|Charles P. Nelson]] in joint command.
  
 
''Porpoise'' was renamed '''A-6''' on 17 November, 1911.
 
''Porpoise'' was renamed '''A-6''' on 17 November, 1911.
  
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In 1916, all the "A" class boats but {{US-A1}} were stationed in the Philippines in Manila Bay along with all three [[Viper Class Submarine (1906)|"B" class]] boats, their crews living aboard their tenders {{US-Monadnock}} and {{US-Mohican}}.{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|p. 1553}}
  
 
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Latest revision as of 21:53, 3 November 2015

U.S.S. Porpoise (1901)
Hull Number: SS-7
Builder: Crescent Shipyard[1]
Laid down: 13 Dec, 1900
Launched: 23 Sep, 1901[2]
Commissioned: 19 Sep, 1903
Decommissioned: 12 Dec, 1919
Stricken: 16 Jan, 1922[3]
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U.S.S. Porpoise was one of seven Plunger (or "A") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Porpoise commissioned alongside her sister Shark at the Holland Torpedo Boatyard at New Suffolk, New York on 19 September, 1903, with Lieutenant Charles P. Nelson in joint command.

Porpoise was renamed A-6 on 17 November, 1911.

In 1916, all the "A" class boats but A-1 were stationed in the Philippines in Manila Bay along with all three "B" class boats, their crews living aboard their tenders Monadnock and Mohican.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  4. ↑ Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. p. 1553.
  5. ↑ Register of Officers, 1905. p. 198.
  6. ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 32.
  7. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 30.
  8. ↑ Wikipedia.
  9. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 50.
  10. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 54.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 54.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 54.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 54.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1914. p. 56.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 62.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 62.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 68.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 62.
  19. ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 68.

Bibliography


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