Permit (SS-178) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 13 January 1943, following overhaul. Note that she has been refitted with an external torpedo tube on each side of her bow.(rudeerude) 

Permit (SS-178)

July 15, 1943 USS Independence CVL-22 in San Francisco Bay.(rudeerude)

USS Independence

Submarines in San Diego harbor, California, 1940 Moored alongside Holland (AS-3), from which the photograph was taken, the submarines are (from left to right): Salmon (SS-182); Seal (SS-183); Pickerel (SS-177); Plunger (SS-179); Snapper (SS-185) and Permit (SS-178). Note the small motor boats, of the type carried by fleet submarines prior to World War II. One of the men standing on Salmon's (SS-182) deck is Yeoman Clayton Johnson, who in 1969 was a Commander serving at the Naval History Division. Enterprise (CV-6) is in the distance, tied up at Naval Air Station, North Island.(rudeerude)