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USS Narwhal (SS-17)

USS D-1
USS D-1
History
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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