USS O-11
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsUSS O-11 (SS-72), also known as "Submarine No. 72", was one of 16 O-class submarines of the United States Navy commissioned during World War I.
Design
The later O-boats, O-11 through O-16, were designed by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, to different specifications from the earlier boats designed by Electric Boat. They did not perform as well, and are sometimes considered a separate class.Template:Sfn The submarines had a length of Template:Cvt overall, a beam of Template:Cvt, and a mean draft of Template:Cvt. They displaced Template:Convert on the surface and Template:Cvt submerged. The O-class submarines had a crew of 2 officers and 27 enlisted men. They had a diving depth of Template:Cvt.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
For surface running, the boats were powered by two Template:Convert Busch-Sulzer diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a Template:Convert Diehl Manufacture Company electric motor. They could reach Template:Convert on the surface and Template:Cvt underwater. On the surface, the O class had a range of Template:Convert at Template:Cvt.Template:SfnTemplate:SfnTemplate: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. The O-class submarines were also armed with a single [[3"/23 caliber gun|Template:Cvt/23 caliber]] retractable deck gun.Template:Sfn
Construction
O-11Template:'s keel was laid down on 6 March 1916, by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 29 October 1917,Template:Sfn sponsored by Mrs. Anne Baruch,Template:Sfn and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard, on 19 October 1918.Template:Sfn
Service history
Commissioned too late for World War I combat service, O-11 joined other boats of her class at Cape May, New Jersey, in 1919. On 20 September 1919, she was placed in commission, in reserve, at Cape May, and steamed to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, in October; workmen at Philadelphia, spent months working on the boat before she departed for Coco Solo, in the Panama Canal Zone.Template:Sfn
The arrival of a submarine squadron at Coco Solo, in 1913, had demonstrated the usefulness of the boats, the base continued as a distant submarine overhaul and testing area, into the 1920s.Template:Sfn
When the US Navy adopted its hull classification system on 17 July 1920, she received the hull number SS-72.Template:Sfn
O-11 reported there in 1922; after deck crews had brought her up to prime efficiency, she took several test dives off Panama, in spring 1923. In October, she sailed to Philadelphia.Template:Sfn
Fate
O-11 decommissioned at Philadelphia, 21 June 1924, after just five and a half years of service, and was turned over to the Commandant, Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 May 1930, the boat was sold in July 1930.Template:Sfn
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