MAP SHOWING WILKINS' FLIGHT AND PROPOSESED UNDERSEA DASH WILKINS SPEEDS PLANS FOR UNDERSEA EXPLORATION TRIP AT "TOP OF THE WORLD" Photo provided by the late Rick Larson MMCM (SS) (ret.) via Ric Hedman. Moored to the right in the photo is most likely the ex- Tonopah (M-8) or Cheyenne (M-10). O-12 (SS-73) shown here in her decommissioned state at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. USN photo submitted by Charles Worcester. Series: "Airscapes" of American and Foreign Areas, 1917 - 1964 Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air Forces, ca. Identifiable submarines are not clear enough for positive ID's, but all the 6 Lake Torpedo Boat Co. One of the Henry Ford built Eagle class patrol boats is in the lower left corner of the basin.
US Sub Base, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone: 26 September 1922. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph # NH 74644 submitted by Robert Hurst. O-12 (SS-73) at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone in February 1920. Submarines Through 1945, An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. Navy standardized on Lake's flat stern, whose buoyancy kept the propellers and diving planes down in the water. Lake boats show their distinctive sterns at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1919: O-boats, inboard O-12 (SS-73), outboard O-14 (SS-75), middle boat, N-7 (SS-59) and two other unidentified boats.Īfter WW I the U.S. Starboard side view of the O-12 (SS-73), circa 1918-24. USN photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. USN photo # 19-N-884, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.įrom 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. USN photo # 19-N-871B, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham. N-4 (SS-56) outboard with O-12 (SS-73) inboard, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT., 16 January 1917. Note the seperate flooding ports in the watertight superstructure.ĭrawing by Jim Christley, text courtesy of U.S.
Simon Lake's O-12 (SS-73) retained his trademark stern and amidships planes (shown folded down in the outboard view). electric motors, 800 hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller. 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. Specifications: Displacement, surfaced: 491 t., submerged: 566 t. Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Struck from the Naval Register, Transferred to USSB for conversion for Arctic exploration, renamed Nautilus Final Disposition, scuttled, 20 November 1931 in Norwegian waters.
Launched, 29 September 1917 Commissioned, USS O-12, 19 October 1918, at New York Designated (SS-73), 17 July 1920 Decommissioned, 17 June 1924, at Philadelphia, PA.
O-11 Class Submarine: Laid down, 6 March 1916, at Lake Torpedo Boat Co., Bridgeport, CT.
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