USS H-2
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsUSS Nautilus/H-2 (SS-29), also known as "Submarine No. 29", was an H-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). She was the third ship and first submarine of the USN to bear the name nautilus, a tropical mollusk having a many-chambered, spiral shell with a pearly interior, though she was renamed H-2 prior to launching.
Design
The H-class submarines had an overall length of Template:Cvt, a beam of Template:Cvt, and a mean draft of Template:Cvt. They displaced Template:Cvt on the surface and Template:Cvt submerged. They had a diving depth of Template:Cvt. The boats had a crew of 2 officers and 23 enlisted men.Template:Sfn
For surface running, they were powered by two New London Ship & Engine Company Template:Convert diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by two Template:Convert Electro-Dynamic Company electric motors. They could reach Template:Cvt on the surface and Template:Cvt underwater.Template:Sfn On the surface, the boats had a range of Template:Cvt at Template:Cvt and Template:Cvt at Template:Cvt submerged.Template:Sfn
The boats were armed with four 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried four reloads, for a total of eight torpedoes.Template:Sfn
Construction
NautilusTemplate:'s keel was laid down on 23 March 1911, by the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, California. She was renamed H-2, on 17 November 1911, and launched on 4 June 1913, sponsored by Mrs. William Ranney Sands. H-2 was commissioned on 1 December 1913.Template:Sfn
Service history
Attached to the Pacific Fleet, H-2 operated along the West Coast, usually in company with Template:USS, on various exercises and patrols out of San Pedro, California, until October 1917, when she sailed for the East Coast. Transferred to the Atlantic Fleet, as of 9 November 1917, she cruised in the Caribbean Sea, for most of that winter, also conducting special submarine detection tests with aircraft and patrol vessels from Key West, Florida. After having new engines installed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1918, she resumed patrols in the Caribbean, until the end of the war, when she returned to the sub base at New London, Connecticut. From there, she operated in Long Island Sound, often with student officers from the submarine school on board.Template:Sfn
Heading west again, H-2 sailed with H-1, on 6 January 1920, touching at several Caribbean ports before transiting the Panama Canal, on 20 February. When H-1 went aground off Santa Margarita Island, on 12 March, H-2 stood by and sent rescue and search parties for survivors, helping to save all but four of her sister ship's crew. She then continued to San Pedro, arriving on 20 March.Template:Sfn
Drills and exercises with the Pacific Fleet, and Submarine Division 7 (SubDiv 7), out of San Pedro, were interrupted by an extensive Mare Island Naval Shipyard overhaul in the winter of 1921, after which H-2 returned to the same schedule.Template:Sfn
Fate
In company with SubDiv 7, she sailed from San Pedro, on 25 July 1922, reaching Hampton Roads, on 14 September. H-2 decommissioned there on 23 October. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 December 1930, and she was sold for scrap on 1 September 1931.Template:Sfn
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