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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">The now renamed T-2 underway on her builder's trials, late summer 1921, location unknown but it is | <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">The now renamed T-2 underway on her builder's trials, late summer 1921, location unknown but it is possibly Cape Cod Bay, MA. She still does not have a permanent bridge fairwater installed, a common practice for Electric Boat subs at this time. It will be installed later. | ||
<small>Many thanks to Charles R. Hinman, Education & Outreach Director, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park and the Bowfin Museum, Pearl Harbor, HI.</small> | <small>Many thanks to Charles R. Hinman, Education & Outreach Director, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park and the Bowfin Museum, Pearl Harbor, HI.</small> |
Latest revision as of 11:54, 24 October 2023
Between the two hulls workmen are assembling what look to be frame members for the torpedo tube installation. Other pieces, yet to be assembled, are scattered below both the AA-2 and the AA-3.
Photo date is July 16, 1917. The United States has been at war with the Central Powers since April 6, 1917, four months, at the time this photo was taken. It would still be four more months before U.S. submarines would sail the Atlantic and take up stations in the European Theater of Operations against Germany.
Photo courtesy of Wendy Gulley, Submarine Force Library & Museum, Groton, CT.
Photo courtesy of Wendy Gulley, Submarine Force Library & Museum, Groton, CT.
Between the hulls is another building way. The white sign reads "Hull 282". This is a Bethlehem Quincy internal hull number. They are about to build their 282nd vessel. It will become the USS R-1 (SS-78) The older photos show this area piled with lumber and scaffolding. It is obviously set up for a smaller vessel. Laying along this building slip are hull plating sections. It is not clear if they are for the R-1 or one of the two bigger boats.
Photo courtesy of Wendy Gulley, Submarine Force Library & Museum, Groton, CT.
U.S. Navy photo
Many thanks to Charles R. Hinman, Education & Outreach Director, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park and the Bowfin Museum, Pearl Harbor, HI.
As flaws in the design and construction of the T-class were becoming evident there were attempts made to sort out the problems. What the specific reason for this drydocking on this chilly February day are unknown at this time. Largely considered to be a failure, T-2 would be decommissioned just 17 months later and sent un-mourned to the reserve fleet in Philadelphia. She would be scrapped in 1931.
Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman
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