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Photo #: NH 98629 USS Savannah (AS-8) With "O"-type submarines alongside, circa the early 1920s. Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, Connecticut, December 1989. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 525 pixels
Photo #: NH 67870 USS Savannah (AS-8) At anchor with two submarines moored to her port side, during the 1920s. The outboard submarine is S-25 (SS-130). Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 435 pixels
Photo #: NH 72921 USS Savannah (AS-8) With five submarines alongside, during the 1920s. USS S-24 (SS-129) is the inboard submarine on Savannah's port side. Those moored to her starboard side are (from inboard to outboard): S-27 (SS-132), S-20 (SS-125) and S-28 (SS-133). Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 460 pixels
Photo #: NH 71012 USS Savannah (AS-8) At Portland, Oregon, during the 1920s. Submarines alongside are (from left to right): S-27 (SS-132), S-29 (SS-134) and S-25 (SS-130). Photographed by Peck. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 110KB; 575 x 765 pixels
Photo #: NH 71040 USS Savannah (AS-8) Dressed with flags while in port, with four submarines alongside, during the 1920s. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 130KB; 595 x 765 pixels
Photo #: NH 42573 Control Force submarines and their tenders at Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1923. The tenders are (from left to right): Savannah (AS-8), Bushnell (AS-2), Beaver (AS-5) and Camden (AS-6). Submarines are mostly "R" type boats, among them R-23 (SS-100) and R-25 (SS-102), both in the nest alongside Savannah's port quarter. The larger submarine alongside Savannah's bow may be S-1 (SS-105), with her large seaplane hangar. Photographed by A.E. Wells. Courtesy of Commander Christopher Noble, USN (Retired), 1967. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 600 pixels
Photo #: NH 74660 USS Savannah (AS-8) 1920s cartoon entitled "U.S.S. Savannah under Sail & Steam, Panama Bound", concerning the general state of affairs on this elderly ship during her final years of service. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave Freret, USN (Retired), 1971. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 500 pixels

USS Savannah (AS-8) is seen in the background of the following views of another ship:

Photo #: NH 72935 USS Camden (AS-6) With two other submarine tenders in the distance, circa the middle or later 1920s. USS Savannah (AS-8) is furthest from the camera, in the left center. USS Bushnell (AS-2) is in the center. Donation of Lieutenant Gustave J. Freret, USN (Retired), 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 36KB; 740 x 365 pixels

Photo #: NH 55046 USS Camden (AS-6) Off Pensacola, Florida, 23 December 1924. Ships in the distance are: USS Savannah (AS-8), in center, and USS Bushnell (AS-2), at left. The original print was autographed in June 1967 by Admiral Thomas C. Hart, USN (Retired), who used Camden as his flagship from May 1930 to January 1931, while he was Commander, Control Force, U.S. Fleet. He was a Rear Admiral at that time. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 630 pixels

For other pictures of USS Savannah, see:

USS Savannah (ID # 3015, later AS-8), 1917-1934.

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