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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Launch of H-1 on May 7, 1913 at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA. This highly reworked photo came from a San Francisco area newspaper and was heavily retouched to make newspaper reproduction more visible. | |||
<small>Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.</small> | |||
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H-1 is seen here performing a stationary "static dive", bow is to the left, in the turning basin at San Pedro Harbor. The location is known due to the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company buildings in the background. The Kerckhoff-Cuzner Company was an old established company in the greater Los Angeles area but went out of business in about 1936. | |||
Note the helm wheel attached to the side of the periscope shears. This is a storage position. When in use it was moved to a steering hub on the pedestal with the large square head seen to the left. Chains ran below to the steering rod that ran from the control room to the rudder. | |||
The two round "holes" are actually the deadlight windows for the conning tower. The dark rectangle below them is actually a folding deck to allow for more space for men on the bridge while surfaced. The stripes seen below that on the fairwater are actually section ribs for the conning tower. The conning tower was made up of circular sections bolted together. What you are seeing are these flanges protruding through the skin of the fairwater. | |||
On the side of the periscope shears are seen the number 2 over 1. This means the H-1 was part of Submarine Squadron 2 and was the lead boat in that squadron. These numbers are often confused for the hull numbers. The hull number are always side by side as seen by the number 28. | |||
Seen running up the back of #2 periscope is the piping to the ships whistle. There is an unexplained extra mast stayed to the shears and aft deck seen above the number 28. | |||
<small>Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.</small><br> | |||
<small>Local information courtesy of Anne Hansford of the San Pedro Bay Society historical archives.</small> | |||
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Revision as of 12:11, 4 November 2023
Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.
H-1 is seen here performing a stationary "static dive", bow is to the left, in the turning basin at San Pedro Harbor. The location is known due to the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company buildings in the background. The Kerckhoff-Cuzner Company was an old established company in the greater Los Angeles area but went out of business in about 1936.
Note the helm wheel attached to the side of the periscope shears. This is a storage position. When in use it was moved to a steering hub on the pedestal with the large square head seen to the left. Chains ran below to the steering rod that ran from the control room to the rudder.
The two round "holes" are actually the deadlight windows for the conning tower. The dark rectangle below them is actually a folding deck to allow for more space for men on the bridge while surfaced. The stripes seen below that on the fairwater are actually section ribs for the conning tower. The conning tower was made up of circular sections bolted together. What you are seeing are these flanges protruding through the skin of the fairwater.
On the side of the periscope shears are seen the number 2 over 1. This means the H-1 was part of Submarine Squadron 2 and was the lead boat in that squadron. These numbers are often confused for the hull numbers. The hull number are always side by side as seen by the number 28.
Seen running up the back of #2 periscope is the piping to the ships whistle. There is an unexplained extra mast stayed to the shears and aft deck seen above the number 28.
Photo in the private collection of Ric Hedman.
Local information courtesy of Anne Hansford of the San Pedro Bay Society historical archives.
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