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Cachalot / K-2 (SS-33)

Radio Call Sign: November - Yankee - Golf

K Class Submarine: Laid down, 20 February 1912, as Cachalot, at Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, MA., Renamed K-2; Launched, 4 October 1913; Commissioned, USS K-2, 31 January 1914; Designated (SS-33), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 6 March 1923, at Hampton Roads (Submarine Base); Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 3 June 1931.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 392 t., Submerged: 521 t.; Length 153' 7"; Beam 16' 8"; Draft 13' 1"; Speed, Surfaced 14 kts, Submerged 9.5 kts; Operating Depth, 200'; Complement, 2 Officers, 26 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, New London Ship & Engine Co., diesel engine, HP 950, Fuel Capacity, 18,126 gals., Electro Dynamic Co., electric motor, HP 680, Battery Cells, 120, single propeller.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
63k	Starboard view of the K-2 (SS-33) underway with crew on deck, date and location unknown.	US Navy photo # CR-7081, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
100k	Portside view of the K-2 (SS-33) off Pensacola, Florida on 12 April, 1916, underway with "zebra" camoflouge.	US National Archive photo # 80-G-451709, courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org.
88	USN subs K-1 (SS-32), K-2 (SS-32), K-6 (SS-37) & K-5 (SS-36) prior to going to Europe after the US entered WW I. The Florida (BB-30) is seen at rear. Notice that the *K-5* is being painted with "Dazzle paint".	USN photo courtesy of Ric Hedmen.
57k	"American submarines of the *K-class* fitted out with machinery & equipment of the latest type to be used in case of hostile descent on our coast". Pictured in no particular order are probably the K-1 (SS-32), K-2 (SS-33), K-5 (SS-36), and K-6 (SS-37) alongside the tender Bushnell (AS-2), Ponta Delgada, Azores, circa 1918.	Photo by Central News, courtesy of memory.loc.gov. Partial text from "The War of the Nations" (New York), December 31, 1919. Photo added 02/21/08.
98k	K-2 (SS-33) in dry dock at Lisbon, Portugal, 1918.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 55005.
82k	United States Legation visiting the submarine, at Lisbon, Portugal, during the summer of 1918. View looks forward from the fairwater, with diving planes deployed at K-2's (SS-33) bow.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 55006.
70k	United States Legation visiting the K-2 (SS-33), at Lisbon, Portugal, during the summer of 1918. View looks forward from the fairwater.	U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 55007.
27k	Circa post 1920 photo of the K-2 (SS-33), T-1(SS-52) & T-3 (SS-61). In the foreground is another unidentified K-boat. The *T-1* has a canvas covering over her deck gun. Note differences in the construction of the *T-1* & *T-3* conning tower fairwaters.	US Navy photo, text courtesy of Ric Hedman
309k	From left to right:K-3 (SS-34), K-2 (SS-33), & two other *K class* boats.	US Navy photo courtesy of STSCS(SS) Robert Carlin.
146k	Busy unknown and undated dockyard scene. From left to right: K-8 (SS-39), K-2 (SS-33), unknown *K class* boat, K-3 (SS-34) & K-1 (SS-32).	US Navy photo courtesy of STSCS(SS) Robert Carlin.

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