1915
March 25, 1915
US
Submarine F-4 (Skate, No.23) (right), sank during routine training off Honolulu Harbor
ASHCROFT, GEORGE T, Gunner’s Mate, 1st class
BUCK, CLARK GEORGE, Gunner’s
Mate, 2nd class
CAUVIN, ERNEST C, Machinist's Mate, 1st class
COLWELL, HARLEY, Chief Electrician's Mate
COVINGTON, WALTER F, Machinist's
Mate, 1st class
DEETH, GEORGE L, Electrician's Mate, 1st class,
EDE, ALFRED LOUIS,
Lieutenant (JG) (Commanding Officer)
GILMAN, FREDERICK, Gunner's Mate, 1st
class
GRINDLE, ALISTON H, Chief Electrician's Mate
HERZOG, FRANK N, Electrician, 2nd class
HILL, EDWIN S, Machinist's Mate, 1st class
HUGHSON, FRANCIS M, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
JENNIE, ALBERT F, Electrician, 2nd class
LUNGER, ARCHIE H, Gunner's Mate, 2nd class
MAHAN, IVAN L, Machinist's Mate,
1st class
MOORE, HORACE L, Gunner's Mate, 1st class
NELSON, WILLIAM S, Chief Machinist's Mate
PARKER, TIMOTHY A, Ensign (Executive Officer)
PIERARD, FRANK C, Chief Gunner's Mate
WELLS, CHARLES H, Machinist's Mate, 2nd class
Note: Chief Gunner's Mate Frank Crilley was
awarded the Medal of Honor for saving another
diver working on the wreck of F-4 on April 17, 1915
1916
January 15, 1916
US
Submarine E-2 (No.25, later SS-25), refitting, battery explosion in New York
Navy Yard (four killed, one DOW)
names of those killed not known
January 16, 1916
US
Submarine E-2 (No.25, later SS-25), refitting, battery explosion in New York
Navy Yard on 15th
CLARK, GUY H, Jr, Machinist's Mate, injured, died in Navy Hospital, New York
MILES, E L, Chief
Electrician, in Navy Hospital, N Y, unlikely to recover as of
16th, not known if died
1917
July 25, 1917
US Submarine A-7 (ex-Shark, later SS-8)
(right), patrols off Manila, P I, internal gasoline explosion and fire in Manila Bay on 24th, all died of burns and
smoke inhalation at Naval Hospital, Canacao,
P I
CURRIE, JESSE MELLON, Chief Electrician
HIXON, IRA DELL, Machinist's Mate, 2nd class
HOPEWELL, OTHO, Gunner's Mate, 2nd class (G)
KUNZ, JOSEPH ANTHONY, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
LANG, HAROLD HOLDEN, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
MARCUS, ARNOLD, Lieutenant (JG)
July 28, 1917
Submarine
Base, New London, Conn,
both drowned
(not known if submarine-related)
NEALE, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Seaman, USNRF
TERRILL, GEORGE LEONIAL, Boatswain's Mate, 1st
class
August 1, 1917
Naval Hospital, Canacao,
PI (presumably US Submarine A-7, internal gasoline explosion and fire in Manila Bay on July 24)
JACOBS, ARTHUR MARTIN, Fireman, 2nd class, gasoline
explosion, DOI
October 10, 1917
Submarine
Base, San Pedro, Calif
MILLER, EARL LOUIS, Seaman, 2nd class, drowned
(not known if submarine-related)
December 9, 1917
Submarine
Base, San Pedro, Calif
McCRARY, HARRY LEE, Electrician, 1st class, injured,
DOI (not known if submarine-related)
December 17, 1917
US Submarine F-1 (ex-Carp, No.20)
(right), underway off California, sank
in collision with sister boat F-3, all drowned
BELT, JOHN ROBERT, Seaman,
BERNARD, FRANK MATTHEW, Machinist's Mate, 2nd
class
CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM LESTER, Seaman
CORSON, HARRY LE ROY, Chief Electrician (G)
GOONAN, JAMES, Chief Gunners' Mate
GREENBERG, SIMON, Electrician, 1st class
HALL, EDWARD EMERSON, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
LOVELY, LYMAN FREDERICK, Machinist's Mate, 2nd
class
McCLUER, RALPH
EDGAR, Electrician, 2nd class (G)
McRAE, DUNCAN
ARCHIE, Electrician, 1st class
MESSANG, JOHN PETER ALBERT, Chief Machinist's
Mate
METZ, GROVER EDWIN, Machinist's Mate,
2nd class
SCOTT, RAY ELSWORTH, Electrician, 1st class
SMITH, ELBERT PESHINE, Machinist's Mate, 2nd
class
STEWART, GUY RAYMOND, Chief Machinist's Mate
STOUGH, DUDLEY, Chief Gunner's Mate (T)
VINCENT, CHARLES FRIDLEY, Electrician, 2nd
class (G)
WALSH, THOMAS ALFRED, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
WYATT, CLYDE WILLIAM, Machinist's Mate, 1st
class
1918
January 24, 1918
US
Submarine L-10 (later SS-50), either on passage from Azores to southern Ireland or operating off Irish coast
LEESE, ROYAL ALLEN, Gunner's Mate, 1st class, fell
overboard and drowned
March 2, 1918
HM
Submarine H.5, serving as observer, accidentally rammed by British SS Rutherglen in Irish Sea (all on board lost) (BN - 7th)
CHILDS, EARL W F, Lieutenant,
June 8, 1918
US
Submarine AL-3, L-class, designated AL to avoid confusion with British
L-class, based at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, Ireland
WHITAKER, HORACE ELMER, Gunner's Mate, 3rd
class, washed overboard
July 19, 1918
Submarine
Base, New London, Conn
STENERSON, WILLIAM NICHOLS, Fireman, 3rd class,
drowned (not known if submarine-related)
September 25, 1918
Torpedo Range, Submarine Base, San Pedro, Calif
SHARP, JOSEPH THOMAS, Coxswain, drowned (not
known if submarine-related)
October 5, 1918
US
Submarine O-5 (later SS-66) (right), post-commissioning trials following completion by
Fore River Shipbuilding Co, Quincy, Mass, explosion in after battery room
SHARKEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Lieutenant (JG), trying
to prevent explosion, killed
October 14, 1918
US
Submarine O-5 (later SS-66)
(right), post-commissioning trials following completion by
Fore River Shipbuilding Co, Quincy, Mass, explosion in after battery room on
5th
TREVER, GEORGE ARTHUR, Lieutenant Commander, commanding
officer, severe, multiple injuries, (BN - injuries extreme, gas submarine),
died at Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N Y