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{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=Joseph Reesman Mann, Jr.|nick=Joseph R. Mann, Jr.|appt=1915{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 54}}{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 60}}|end=1916{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 60}}|as=Captain of U.S.S. B-3}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=Solomon Haddon Geer|nick=Solomon H. Geer|appt=1916{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 60}}{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 54}}|as=Captain of U.S.S. B-3}}
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Revision as of 10:15, 21 October 2015

U.S.S. Tarantula (1907)
Hull Number: SS-12
Builder: Fore River[1]
Ordered: Act of April, 1904[2]
Launched: 30 Mar, 1907[3]
Commissioned: 3 Dec, 1907
Decommissioned: 25 Jul, 1921
Expended: 1922[4]
Fate: as target
U.S.S. Tarantula was one of three Viper (or "B") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Tarantula was launched on 30 March 1907 sponsored by Mrs. George S. Radford, wife of Naval Constructor Radford, and commissioned on 3 December, 1907 under the command of Lieutenant J. F. Daniels.

Tarantula was redesignated as B-3 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. 36.
  7. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 34.
  8. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 50.
  9. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 60.
  10. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 54.
  11. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 60.
  12. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 60.
  13. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 60.
  14. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 54.

Bibliography


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