USS O-2
O-1-class submarine
Service
- as O-219 October 1918 — 26 July 19452,155 days of the war
- Name
- USS O-2
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-63
- Builder
- Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington
- Ordered
- 3 March 1916
- Laid down
- 7 July 1917
- Launched
- 24 May 1918
- Commissioned
- 19 October 1918
- Decommissioned
- 25 June 1931
- Recommissioned
- 3 February 1941
- Struck
- 11 August 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 16 November 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 520 long tons (528 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 629 long tons (639 t)
- Length
- 52.43 m (172 ft)
- Beam
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Draught
- 4.27 m (14 ft)
- Speed
- 14 knots (25.9 km/h, 16.1 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS O-2 was a O-1-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-63. Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington laid her keel on 7 July 1917. Launched on 24 May 1918, she entered service on 19 October 1918.
The boat displaced 520 long tons surfaced and 629 long tons submerged. She measured 52.4 m (172 ft) long with a beam of 5.5 m (18 ft). Her designed speed was 14 knots, and she carried a complement of 29.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 880 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,155 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 June 1931. She recommissioned on 3 February 1941. She was struck from the register on 11 August 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 16 November 1945.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × NELSECO 6-EB-14 diesel engines
- 2 × New York Navy Yard electric motors
- 2 × 60-cell batteries
- 2 × Propellers
- Power
- 880 bhp diesel
- 740 hp electric
- Armament
- 4 × 18 inch (450 mm) bow torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in/23 caliber retractable deck gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS O-2 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: The original uploader was Jons63 at English Wikipedia . — Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g40000/g43874c.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g40000/g43874.jpg — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons