Submarine class
United States O-class submarine
O class
The class in numbers
- 16 Completed
- 3 Lost
- 13 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Built
- 1916–1918
- In commission
- 1918–1931
- Preceded by
- N class
- Succeeded by
- R class
- Operators
- United States
- Builders
- Portsmouth Navy Yard (O-1)
- Puget Sound Navy Yard (O-2)
- Fore River Shipyard (O-3 to O-10)
- Lake Torpedo Boat Company (O-11 to O-13)
- California Shipbuilding Company (O-14 to O-16)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, surfaced
- 520 long tons (528 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 629 long tons (639 t)
- Length
- 52.43 m (172 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 18 inch (450 mm) bow torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in/23 caliber retractable deck gun
Fit 2
- Displacement, surfaced
- 485 long tons (493 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 566 long tons (575 t)
- Length
- 53.34 m (175 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
- Armament
- 4 × 18 inch bow torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in/23 caliber retractable deck gun
Sources
- Facts harvested from United States O-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.