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O-2 (SS-63)

Radio Call Sign: November - Echo - Tango - Juliet
O Class Submarine: Laid down, 27 July 1917, at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.; Launched, 24 May 1918; Commissioned, USS O-2, 19 October 1918; Designated (SS-63), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 25 July 1931, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Recommissioned, 3 February 1941, at Philadelphia; Decommissioned, 26 July 1945; Struck from the Naval Register, 11 August 1945; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 16 November 1945.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 521 t., Submerged: 629 t.; Length 172' 4"; Beam 18' 0"; Draft 14' 5"; Speed, Surfaced 14 kts, Submerged 10.5 kts; Operational Depth Limit 200 ft; Complement 2 Officers 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 18", torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, New England Ship and Engine Co, diesels, 880 hp, Fuel Capacity, 21,897 gal.; New York Navy Yard electric motors, 740 hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller.
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O-2127kThe O-2's (SS-63) keel laying on 27 July 1917 draws a large crowd to the Bremerton Navy Yard, including the Navy band, left foreground behind the keel plating. U.S. Navy photo & text courtesy of Beneath the Surface: World War I Submarines Built in Seattle and Vancouver by Bill Lightfoot. Photo courtesy of Larry (Jake) Jacobsen.
O-2126k O-2 (SS-63) slides down the launching ways at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA., 24 May 1918. U.S. Navy photo courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org.
O-277kO-2 (SS-63) in drydock at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, circa 1919. U.S. Navy photo # NH 102783, courtesy of USNHC. Collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. Donated by Virginia Agostini, 1990.
O-279k O-2 (SS-63) & O-15 (SS-76), alongside Rainbow (AS-7), circa 1919. An 18-inch torpedo is being lowered down O-15's forward hatch. Note the retracted 3"/23 gun just forward of O-2's fairwater, and the "SC-Tube" hydrophone on O-15's foredeck. U.S. Navy photo # NH 44545, courtesy of USNHC.
O-258k Jason (AC-12) at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1924. Several submarines are in the foreground, including (from left to right):
S-19 (SS-124);
O-9 (SS-70);
R-26 (SS-103) -- probably--; and
O-2 (SS-63). 		U.S. Navy photo # NH 102780, courtesy of USNHC. Courtesy of Chief Boatswain's Mate George Behrens, USN (Retired), 1974.
O-2108k Starboard diesel engine, prior to installation in the O-2 (SS-63), circa 1917-1918. This is presumably a 6 cylinder, 440 BHP, New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) 6-EB-14 type engine. U.S. Navy photo # NH 44544, courtesy of USNHC.
O-boats 85k Submarine Division 8, Commander Guy E. Davis commanding. Nine of the Division's ten O-boats at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 August 1921. Panoramic photograph by Crosby, "Naval Photographer", 11 Portland Street, Boston. Submarines in the front row are (from left to right): O-3 (SS-64), O-6 (SS-67), O-9 (SS-70) and O-1 (SS-62). Those in the second row are (from left to right): O-7 (SS-68), unidentified (either O-2 or O-8), O-5 (SS-66), O-10(SS-71) and O-4 (SS-65). Large four-stacked ship in the left center distance is the U.S. Army Transport Mount Vernon.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 103193.
O-263k Orion (AC-11) or Jason (AC-12) at a Caribbean area base, probably the Coco Solo Submarine Base, Panama Canal Zone, circa the mid-1920s. O-2 (SS-63) is at right. U.S. Navy photo NH 100770 courtesy of USNHC. Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1986.
Argonaut69kV-4 (SF-7) in dry dock at Portsmouth Navy Yard in March 1928. Note how she dwarfs the smaller O-2 (SS-63). Photo from War Under The Pacific, by K.Wheeler, and submitted courtesy of Robert Hurst. Photo added 07/18/07.
O-260kO-2 (SS-63), diving, during training operations out of New London, Connecticut, 26 November 1943. US Navy photo # 80-G-13029, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
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