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O-13 (SS-74)

O-11 Class Submarine: Laid down, 6 March 1916, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.; Launched, 27 December 1917; Commissioned, USS O-13, 27 November 1918, at New York; Designated (SS-74), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 11 June 1924, at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia; 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-13 181k Starboard view of the O-13 (SS-74) with crew in dress whites lined up on deck, probably during her commissioning ceremony, 27 November 1918, at New York.
 		US Navy photo courtesy ofussubvetsofwwii.org.
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, probably with the submarine tender Bushnell (AS-2).
US Navy photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
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