USS O-13
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsUSS O-13 (SS-74), also known as "Submarine No. 74", was one of 16 O-class submarines of the United States Navy commissioned after the end of 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-13Template:'s keel was laid down on 6 March 1916, by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched 27 December 1917, Template:Sfn sponsored by Miss Margaret Arletta Adams,Template:Sfn and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard, on 27 November 1918.Template:Sfn
Service history
While conducting submerged trials in Long Island Sound, on 5 October 1918, prior to her commissioning, O-13 rammed Template:USS, the section patrol boat that was accompanying her during a submerged circular run off Bridgeport, Connecticut, holing Mary Alice amidships. Although Mary Alice sank within minutes, O-13 rescued her entire crew.Template:Sfn
O-13 operated along the coast of New Jersey and New York, until 8 October 1919, when she arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, for a five-month overhaul. After returning to Cape May, New Jersey, on 8 March 1920, she departed on 1 April, for duty in the Caribbean Sea. Steaming via Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, she arrived Coco Solo, in the Panama Canal Zone, on 30 April.Template:Sfn
When the US Navy adopted its hull classification system on 17 July 1920, she received the hull number SS-74.Template:Sfn
For over three years O-13 operated out of the Submarine Base, at Coco Solo, both in the Caribbean Sea, and in the Pacific Ocean. Cruises sent her to ports in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, while assigned to Submarine Division 10.Template:Sfn
Fate
She sailed on 15 October 1923, for the United States, arriving at Philadelphia, on 8 November. O-13 decommissioned there on 11 June 1924, after just five and a half years of service, and was placed in reserve. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 May 1930, and her hull was sold for scrap on 30 July 1930.Template:Sfn
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