USS D-1 (SS-17)
USS D-1
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| Name: | USS D-1 |
| Builder: | Fore River Shipbuilding, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 8 April 1909 |
| Commissioned: | 23 November 1909, as USS Narwhal |
| Decommissioned: | 8 February 1922 |
| Renamed: | USS D-1, 17 November 1911 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 5 June 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | D-class submarine |
| Displacement: | 288 long tons (293 t) |
| Length: | 134 ft 10 in (41.10 m) |
| Beam: | 13 ft 11 in (4.24 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Speed: | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
| Complement: | 15 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 × 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS D-1 (SS-17) was the lead ship of the D-class submarines of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut, as Narwhal, making her the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the narwhal, a gray and white arctic whale which averages 20 feet in length, the male of which has a long, twisted ivory tusk of commercial value. Narwhal was launched on 8 April 1909 sponsored by Mrs. Gregory C. Davison, and commissioned on 23 November 1909 with Lieutenant J. C. Townsend in command.
Narwhal joined the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet, based at Newport, Rhode Island. These pioneer submarines operated very actively in diving grounds in Cape Cod and Narragansett Bay, Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound, and Chesapeake Bay, and off Norfolk, Virginia; on target ranges proving torpedoes; experimental operations; and cruises along the East Coast. Narwhal was renamed D-1 on 17 November 1911.
From 20 January-11 April 1913, the submarine flotilla cruised to the Caribbean Sea, and from 5 January-21 April 1914 visited Gulf of Mexico and Florida ports.
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