Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
United States Navy — Submarine SS-71

USS O-10

O-1-class submarine

USS O-10
U.S. Navy photograph — U.S. Navy photograph: https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08071.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate — SS-71 US Navy submarine USS O-10 (SS-71) at the Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. Submarine USS O-4 (SS-65) is moored inboard of O-10 .

Service

  1. United States Navy as O-1017 August 1918 — 10 September 19452,193 days of the war
O-1-class submarine Particulars
Name
USS O-10
Pennant / hull number
SS-71
Builder
Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
Ordered
3 March 1916
Laid down
27 February 1917
Launched
21 February 1918
Commissioned
17 August 1918
Decommissioned
25 June 1931
Recommissioned
10 March 1941
Struck
11 October 1945
Fate
Sold for scrap, 21 August 1946 (1946)
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-10 was a O-1-class submarine in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-71. Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 27 February 1917. She entered service on 17 August 1918, having been launched on 21 February 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 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 June 1931. She recommissioned on 10 March 1941. She was struck from the register on 11 October 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 21 August 1946.

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 × Electro-Dynamic Company 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-10 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — U.S. Navy photograph: https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08071.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons