USS O-7
O-1-class submarine
Service
- as O-74 July 1918 — 2 July 19452,131 days of the war
- Name
- USS O-7
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-68
- Builder
- Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 3 March 1916
- Laid down
- 14 February 1917
- Launched
- 16 December 1917
- Commissioned
- 4 July 1918
- Decommissioned
- 1 July 1931
- Recommissioned
- 12 February 1941
- Struck
- 11 July 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 22 January 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-7 was a O-1-class submarine in service with the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-68. Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 14 February 1917. Launched on 16 December 1917, she entered service on 4 July 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 2,131 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 1 July 1931. She recommissioned on 12 February 1941. She was struck from the register on 11 July 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 January 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-7 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Standards and Curriculum Division Training, Bureau of Naval Personnel — The Fleet Type Submarine, Navpers 16160 — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons