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O-11 (SS-72)

O-11 Class Submarine: Laid down, 6 March 1916, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 29 October 1917; Commissioned, USS O-11, 19 October 1918, at New York; Designated (SS-72), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 21 June 1924, at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 May 1930; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 30 July 1930

Specifications: Displacement, surfaced: 491 t., submerged: 566 t.; Length 175'; Beam 16' 7"; Draft 13' 11"; Speed, surfaced 14 kts, submerged 11 kts; Operational Depth Limit 200 ft; Complement 2 Officers 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co., diesels, 1,000 hp, Fuel Capacity, 18,588 gal.; Diehl Manufacture Co. electric motors, 800 hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller.
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O-11 208k Bottle & presentation case from the launch of the O-11 (SS-72) , 29 October 1917.
 Photo courtesy of George K.Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. Photo added 01/05/09.
O-11 293k Inscription of the presentation case from the launch of the O-11 (SS-72) , 29 October 1917.
 Photo courtesy of George K.Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. Photo added 01/05/09.
O-11 154k The letter from the Secretary of the Navy, Joesephus Daniels to Mrs. Baruch on the occasion of the christening of the O-11 (SS-72) , 1 November 1917.
 Photo courtesy of George K.Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation. Photo added 01/05/09.
Pargo 86k Sponsor photos of the O-11 (SS-72) are hard to come by (perhaps non-existent). The O-11 was launched by Mrs. Annie Griffen Baruch. Her daughter Miss Belle W. Baruch sponsored the launching of the Pargo (SS-264) 25 years later.
The sponsor's party appear from left to right:
Mrs. L. Y. Spear, R. (Rene) Samstag, Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch & Miss Belle W. Baruch, on 24 January 1943 at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, CT.		 Electric Boat photo courtesy of George K.Chastain, Executive Director of The Belle W. Baruch Foundation.
O-11 60k O-11 (SS-72) , at anchor, circa 1918-24.
US Navy photo courtesy of Ric Hedman / rddesign@rddesigns.com.
O-11 through O-16 238k From inboard to outboard:O-11 (SS-72) , O-13 (SS-74) , O-14 (SS-75) , O-15 (SS-76) , O-16 (SS-77) , and O-12 (SS-73) , at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, circa 1918-24.
US Navy photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
O-11 through O-16 81k O boats possibly in Phila. PA circa 1924:
From inboard to outboard: unidentified O boat, O-11 (SS-72) , O-12 (SS-73) , O-16 (SS-77) & O-14 (SS-75) .
US Navy photo submitted by Charles Worcester.
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