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This photo was taken shortly after the one on the previous page, and it shows Grenadier on her launch day of November 29, 1940 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. She is afloat for the first time and a yard tug is pushing her up to a snowy and cold fitting out pier. The first lines have been thrown over and yard personnel are in the process of making her fast to the pier.

The smoke coming from amidships gives the appearance that she is on fire, but the smoke is actually coming from another yard tug that is assisting in getting her alongside. Atop her conning tower fairwater, much work remains to install and test the periscopes, shears structure, and antenna masts. Grenadier would be commissioned on May 1, 1941.

Photo from the Leslie Jones Collection, courtesy of the Boston Public Library.

Grenadier underway in the Piscataqua River near the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME. on December 27, 1941. The last of the Tambor/Gar-class boats to be commissioned, a post-shakedown refit delayed her departure for the war zone in the Pacific. She was still at Portsmouth when hostilities commenced on December 7, 1941. Note that all exterior identification has been painted out. This happened immediately after the war began.

NH 99403 courtesy of NHHC.

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