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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Cuttlefish''''' was one of three [[Viper Class Submarine (1906)|''Viper'' (or "B") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]]. She commissioned on 18 October 1907 with Lieutenant [[Edward John Marquart|E. J. Marquart]] in command, and reported to the Second Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet.
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Cuttlefish''''' was one of three [[Viper Class Submarine (1906)|''Viper'' (or "B") class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]].  
 
==Service==
''Cuttlefish'' commissioned on 18 October 1907 with Lieutenant [[Edward John Marquart|E. J. Marquart]] in command, and reported to the Second Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet.


''Cuttlefish'' was redesignated as '''B-2''' on 17 November, 1911.
''Cuttlefish'' was redesignated as '''B-2''' on 17 November, 1911.


==Service==
In 1916, all three "B" class boats were stationed in the Philippines in Manila Bay along with six [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|"A" class]] boats, their crews living aboard their tenders {{US-Monadnock}} and {{US-Mohican}}.{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|p. 1553}}


==Captains==
==Captains==

Revision as of 14:59, 31 December 2014

U.S.S. Cuttlefish (1906)
Hull Number: SS-11
Builder: Fore River[1]
Ordered: Act of April, 1904[2]
Launched: 1 Sep, 1906[3]
Commissioned: 18 Oct, 1907
Decommissioned: 12 Dec, 1919
Expended: 1922[4]
Fate: as target

U.S.S. Cuttlefish was one of three Viper (or "B") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Cuttlefish commissioned on 18 October 1907 with Lieutenant E. J. Marquart in command, and reported to the Second Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet.

Cuttlefish was redesignated as B-2 on 17 November, 1911.

In 1916, all three "B" class boats were stationed in the Philippines in Manila Bay along with six "A" class boats, their crews living aboard their tenders Monadnock and Mohican.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  5. ↑ Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. p. 1553.
  6. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 34.

Bibliography


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