USS O-1 (SS-62)

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Career
Laid down:	26 March 1917
Launched:	9 July 1918
Commissioned:	5 November 1918
Fate:	sold for scrap
Stricken:	18 May 1938
General Characteristics
Displacement:	520.6 tons surfaced, 629 tons submerged
Length:	172 feet 4 inches
Beam:	18 feet
Draft:	14 feet 5 inches
Speed:	14 knots surfaced, 10.5 knots submerged
Complement:	29 officers and men
Armament:	one three-inch/50-caliber gun; four 18-inch torpedo tubes

USS O-1 (SS-62) was the lead ship of her class of submarine. Her keel was laid down on 26 March 1917 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire. She was launched on 9 July 1918, and commissioned on 5 November 1918 with Lieutenant Commander Norman L. Kirk in command.

Commissioned just before the Armistice, O-1 operated in the Atlantic coastal waters from Cape Cod to Key West, Florida, after World War I. Reclassified to a second-line submarine on 25 July 1924 and to a first liner 6 June 1928, O-1 was converted to an experimental vessel on 28 December 1930, and operated in an experimental capacity out of the submarine base at New London, Connecticut, until decommissioning on 11 June 1931. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 May 1938 and sold for scrap.

References

This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.