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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Adder''''' was one of seven [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|''Plunger'' (or "A") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].  She was laid down on 3 October, 1900 by the [[Crescent Shipyard]], and launched on 22 July 1901. She was commissioned on 12 January, 1903 at the Holland yard at New Suffolk with Ensign [[Frank Lucius Pinney|Frank L. Pinney]] in command.
 
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Adder''''' was one of seven [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|''Plunger'' (or "A") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].  She was laid down on 3 October, 1900 by the [[Crescent Shipyard]], and launched on 22 July 1901. She was commissioned on 12 January, 1903 at the Holland yard at New Suffolk with Ensign [[Frank Lucius Pinney|Frank L. Pinney]] in command.
  
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==Captains==
 
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Latest revision as of 04:21, 23 January 2017

U.S.S. Adder (1901)
Hull Number: SS-3
Builder: Crescent Shipyard[1]
Laid down: 3 Oct, 1900
Launched: 22 Jul, 1901[2]
Commissioned: 12 Jan, 1903
Decommissioned: 12 Dec, 1919
Stricken: 16 Jan, 1922[3]
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U.S.S. Adder was one of seven Plunger (or "A") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy. She was laid down on 3 October, 1900 by the Crescent Shipyard, and launched on 22 July 1901. She was commissioned on 12 January, 1903 at the Holland yard at New Suffolk with Ensign Frank L. Pinney in command.

Adder was redesignated as A-2 on 17 November, 1911.[4]

Service

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.[5]

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. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 239. Year incorrectly given as 1912 here.
  5. ↑ Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. p. 1553.
  6. ↑ Register of Officers, 1905. p. 84.
  7. ↑ "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 14 January, 1905. Vol. XXXVII, No. 1,309, p. 23.
  8. ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 46.
  9. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 50.
  10. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 48.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 48.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 50.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1913. p. 48.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1916. p. 60.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 58.

Bibliography


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