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Modèle officiel du sous-marin USS Shark (SS-174) réalisé par son constructeur, Electric Boat Company – Groton – Connecticut – 1938
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Modèle officiel du sous-marin USS Shark (SS-174) réalisé par son constructeur, Electric Boat Company – Groton – Connecticut – 1938
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07.15.1903: USAT Logan arrives at San Francisco from the Philippines with David John Conwill aboard. He has been gone since 08.05.1902. “We were just a few days out of San Francisco when we got the news that Germany had invaded England. I’d lived in America since I was 9 years old, but I’d been born in London, and I still felt a pang…”
07.16.1903: As the German reinforcements slated for Britain are no longer needed there, France feels threatened and withdraws its slow-moving Saar Offensive to consolidate its defensive position.
08.20.1903: D.J. Conwill’s initial enlistment expires and he is discharged at Fort McDowell on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. He returns to Springfield, Illinois, where he becomes a firefighter until reenlisting on 06.13.1904.
09.19.1903: U.S. Navy commissions its final three Plunger-class submarines: USS Plunger (A-1), USS Porpoise (A-6), and USS Shark (A-7), all at Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey.
10.30.1903: A member of parliament, ex-army officer Winston Churchill, writes to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Selborne, proposing an armored, tracked “land ship" to break sieges.Selborne passes the idea on to Prime Minister Arthur Balfour, who orders him to explore the idea. It will lead to tanks.
11.11.1903: German Kaiser Wilhelm II approves bombing of the British home islands.
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USS Shark (SS 314) at Elector Boat in Groton, CT, 1943
Photo: NHHC/NARA Photo # 80-G-88704
Sous-marin USS Shark (SS-174) prêt à être lancé – Electric Boat Company shipyard – Groton – Connecticut – 20 mai 1935
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SS-174 USS Shark Porpoise class submarine
Officer's Dress Sword from the U.S.S. Shark
The USS Shark was a schooner in the United States Navy. The Shark reached the coast of Oregon in July 1846 with orders to survey the Columbia River. In September, their mission complete, they attempted to leave the river.
However, the journey ended in disaster when the ship was swept into the breakers on the legendary Columbia River Bar.
USS Shark (SSN-591) underway. Circa 1961.