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Pages in category "World War I submarines of the United States" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
The United States L-class submarines were a class of 11 coastal defense submarines built 1914–1917, and were the most modern and capable submarines available to United States Navy when the country entered World War I. Despite being considered a successful design by the USN, war experience in European waters demonstrated that the boats lacked ...
List of United States Navy ships; List of United States Navy losses in World War II § Submarines (SS) - abbreviated list; List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II § Submarine (SS) - detailed list; The NR-1 Deep Submergence Craft was a non-commissioned nuclear submarine operated by the United States Navy.
Prototype "fleet submarines"—submarines fast enough (21 knots (11 m/s)) to travel with battleships. Twice the size of any concurrent or past U.S. submarine. A poor tandem engine design caused the boats to be decommissioned by 1923 and scrapped in 1930.
United States Navy operations during World War I began on April 6, 1917, after the formal declaration of war on the German Empire. The United States Navy focused on countering enemy U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea while convoying men and supplies to France and Italy.
Submarine chaser SC-405 at Brest, France, December 1918. Following the end of the war, four boats (USS SC-274, USS SC-302, USS SC-311 and USS SC-312) were transferred to Cuba, while 14 boats were transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1919–1920. [2] Eight of the French SC boats remained in service at the outbreak of World War II. [12]
While the US Navy had two older classes of submarines at that time (the O and R classes originally commissioned in 1918 and 1919), the S-class was the oldest class of submarine (possibly in the world) to be used in combat operations. During World War II, 37 S-boats were in service when the United States entered the war in December 1941.
The first four were renamed K-1 through K-4 on 17 November 1911 as part of a forcewide redesignation of US submarines. USS K-1 (SS-32) (formerly USS Haddock) was laid down on 20 February 1912, launched on 3 September 1913 and commissioned on 17 March 1914. The submarine was decommissioned on 7 March 1923 and scrapped in 1931. [6]