USS O-8
O-class submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS O-8 (SS-69) was one of 16 O-class submarines built for the United States Navy during World War I.
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O-8 with the "Victory Fleet" off New York City in 1919 | |
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United States | |
Name | O-8 |
Ordered | 3 March 1916 |
Builder | Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts |
Laid down | 27 February 1917 |
Launched | 31 December 1917 |
Commissioned | 11 July 1918 |
Decommissioned | 27 May 1931 |
Recommissioned | 28 April 1941 |
Decommissioned | 11 September 1945 |
Stricken | 11 October 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 4 September 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Type | O-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 172 ft 3 in (52.5 m) |
Beam | 18 ft 1 in (5.5 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 5 in (4.4 m) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi) at 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) on the surface |
Test depth | 200 feet (61.0 m) |
Complement | 2 officers, 27 enlisted |
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