Latest Updates

This page will display the most recent additions to the site, arranged by date. Click on the link below each picture to be taken to the page where it resides. You may have to scroll to find the newest picture. Please note that minor updates to captions and other text is an ongoing effort and will not be listed here. Enjoy!

March 22, 2025

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  K-5's crew loading a Mk 7 torpedo, 1914
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  Two photos of Pickerel on trials, 1937
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  Closeup of G-4's conning tower

Updating of the page headers is still ongoing and should be completed soon. Check out the new look!

March 9, 2025

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  Porpoise launch day June 1935
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  Two additional photos of Grayback on trials, May, 1941
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  Spearfish in Cape Cod Bay April, 1939

We have been doing a lot of work updating our page headers with a new style that still invokes the traditional PigBoats.COM look. This is an ongoing process and is not yet completed. An example is at the top of this page! Also, the Design and Construction Notes section for L and N-classes has been updated with new information.

February 14, 2025

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  Cuttlefish entering port 1934
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  Four S-boats alongside Canopus
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  L-8 and H-4 outboard of UB-88 in San Pedro

We also added four new photos and one replacement on the S-4 Salvage page. Make sure to check those out.

February 2, 2025

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  L-6 underway in a harbor
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  Five C-class boats at the Gatun Locks, Panama Canal
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  Two photos of Narwhal after 1943 overhaul

We have also added a new article entitled The Final Dive of the USS F-4, co-authored by historian Jon Humboldt Gates. Ric Hedman's articles A list of Submarine Officers and their Assignments and Submarine Movements have been updated with date headers, which will make it easier to find information within. These two articles are a collection of newspaper snippets that will help round out our Commanding Officer Database and information on the individual boat pages. Both articles are also searchable by using the ctrl-F function.

January 23, 2025

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  Tender Holland and a nest of submarines
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  Narwhal and others, San Diego, 1934
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  Closeup of S-37's fairwater

January 11, 2025

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  K-boat maneuvering to moor
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  S-18 launch day 1920
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  S-24 underway in a harbor

In addition, webmaster Dave Johnston has spent the last two weeks working to correct an oversight here at PigBoats. We have never had a page commemorating the "Father of the Modern Submarine", John Philip Holland. We now have a whole new page that gives a detailed overview of the famous inventor, outlining his efforts to develop submarine technology, and providing details of the boats that he built that were not accepted into the U.S. Navy. Please take a moment to read about this great man and his paradigm shifting work.

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