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| Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 1 of 9 | Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 2 of 9 |
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| Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 3 of 9 | Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 4 of 9 |
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| Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 5 of 9 | Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 6 of 9 |
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| Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 7 of 9 | Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 8 of 9 |
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| Skipjack during trials, off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 14 May 1938, photo 9 of 9 | Skipjack's data plaque, photographed circa Jun 1938 |
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| Skipjack running up Thames River after departing the Electric Boat Company shipyard at Groton, Connecticut, United States to go to the Naval Submarine Base for commissioning ceremonies, 30 Jun 1938 | Photograph through the periscope of USS Skipjack of the torpedoed and sinking 7,000-ton freighter Shunko Maru 350 miles southwest of Truk, 14 Oct 1942. |
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| USS Chivo, USS Skipjack, and USS Parche at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 1945 |
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