<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">V-3 waterborne for the first time in the Piscataqua River after her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., June 9, 1925. Portsmouth stern launched all submarines built at the yard until 1960, when they switched to an unusual bow first launch method. USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the first bow launched submarine at the yard.
<small>Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Taken shortly after the photo above, tugs are moving up to V-3 to move her to the fitting out pier. She has been elaborately trimmed with signal flags for the event. She had approximately 11 months of work to go before her commissioning.
<small>Photo courtesy of the Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H. Used with permission.</small>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">The newly commissioned USS V-3 moored at the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA., with the USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" in the background. The Signalman on top of the bridge is signaling with semaphore flags, creating the letter "R". He is standing on a watertight housing for a magnetic compass repeater. The windows of the covered pilothouse are visible on the front edge of the bridge fairwater, just forward of a watertight grommet for radio aerial wires. The open hatch above the "V3" leads to the aft engine room. Aft of the conning tower fairwater is the port small boat kingpost, the boom is laying at deck level. The men are standing on top the port boat storage decking.
V-3's commanding officer at this time was LCDR Charles A. Lockwood, Jr., later to rise in rank to the rank of Vice Admiral with command of the Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC). He was instrumental in developing the leadership and strategy in the highly successful submarine war against Japan.
<small>Boston Public Library/National Archives Photo</small>
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Revision as of 17:35, 3 July 2023
V-3 waterborne for the first time in the Piscataqua River after her launching at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME., June 9, 1925. Portsmouth stern launched all submarines built at the yard until 1960, when they switched to an unusual bow first launch method. USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the first bow launched submarine at the yard.
Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.
Taken shortly after the photo above, tugs are moving up to V-3 to move her to the fitting out pier. She has been elaborately trimmed with signal flags for the event. She had approximately 11 months of work to go before her commissioning.
Photo courtesy of the Milne Special Collections, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, N.H. Used with permission.
The newly commissioned USS V-3 moored at the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, MA., with the USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides" in the background. The Signalman on top of the bridge is signaling with semaphore flags, creating the letter "R". He is standing on a watertight housing for a magnetic compass repeater. The windows of the covered pilothouse are visible on the front edge of the bridge fairwater, just forward of a watertight grommet for radio aerial wires. The open hatch above the "V3" leads to the aft engine room. Aft of the conning tower fairwater is the port small boat kingpost, the boom is laying at deck level. The men are standing on top the port boat storage decking.
V-3's commanding officer at this time was LCDR Charles A. Lockwood, Jr., later to rise in rank to the rank of Vice Admiral with command of the Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC). He was instrumental in developing the leadership and strategy in the highly successful submarine war against Japan.
