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USS G-2
USS Tuna/G-2 (SS-27), also known as "Submarine No. 27", was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). She was the first ship of the USN to be named for the tuna, a large, vigorous, spiny-finned fish highly esteemed for sport and food, though she was renamed G-2 prior to launching.
While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed enough in significant details that they are sometimes considered to be four unique boats, each in a class by herself.
Tuna's keel was laid down on 20 October 1909, by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was renamed G-2 on 17 November 1911, and launched on 10 January 1912, sponsored by Ms. Marjorie F. Miller. G-2 was towed to the New York Navy Yard after the termination of the Lake contract on 7 November 1913, where she was completed, and commission on 1 December 1913.
Departing New York under tow of submarine tender Ozark, ex-monitor Arkansas, the submersible torpedo boat arrived at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, on 28 February 1914. Attached to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, G-2 spent the next five months conducting dive training and engineering exercises with G-1 in Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. During these trials the boat made six submerged runs to a maximum depth of 37 ft (11 m). Her White & Middleton gasoline engine proved troublesome and after the port armature shaft failed on 31 March, the boat was towed to New York for repairs. While there, financial considerations led to G-2 being put in reserve commission on 15 June 1914.
G-2 was placed in full commission at New York, on 6 February 1915. Attached to Division Three, Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, the boat joined G-1, tender Fulton and tug Sonoma, for a cruise to Norfolk, Virginia, on 25 March. Arriving there two days later, the submersible conducted maneuvers in Hampton Roads before proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, in April, arriving there on 17 April. Following a short yard period for repairs, the division proceeded back to New York, mooring alongside the 135th Street pier on 9 May.
On 18 May, G-2 joined other warships and passed in review before President Woodrow Wilson, who looked on from the yacht Mayflower. The boat then sailed to Nantucket, Massachusetts, to participate in a war problem off Block Island, before unloading her torpedoes at Newport, on 25 May. Ordered back to New York for an overhaul, the submersible again transited the familiar waters of Long Island Sound, before arriving at the mouth of the East River, on 22 June. While standing down the river with G-4, the two boats collided with submarine K-2, in an unusual three-boat accident. Fortunately, none of the boats suffered any damage. G-2 entered the Navy Yard there for an extended overhaul later that day.
Escorted to Provincetown, Massachusetts, by Ozark and tug Iwana, G-2 commenced final acceptance trials from 1–10 December. Following those successful evolutions, during which the Trial Board noted numerous items requiring modernization, the boat moved back to New York for an overhaul, on 14 January 1916. Six months later, G-2 shifted to the Lake Torpedo Boat Company yard for completion, receiving new diving rudder gear, hydroplanes, electrical wiring, and a new crankshaft. This yard work required extensive alterations and the boat did not return to service until convoyed to New London, Connecticut, by Sunbeam II, on 28 June 1917.
On 21 August, G-2 sailed to Boston, Massachusetts, via the Cape Cod Canal, to operate with the destroyer Aylwin, submarine chaser SC-6, and steam yacht Margaret. There the boat helped a Navy Experimental Board, embarked in Margaret, to carry out various sound detector tests in nearby waters. The submarine also conducted practice approaches and served as an instruction platform for officer and enlisted submarine students.
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USS G-2
USS Tuna/G-2 (SS-27), also known as "Submarine No. 27", was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). She was the first ship of the USN to be named for the tuna, a large, vigorous, spiny-finned fish highly esteemed for sport and food, though she was renamed G-2 prior to launching.
While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed enough in significant details that they are sometimes considered to be four unique boats, each in a class by herself.
Tuna's keel was laid down on 20 October 1909, by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was renamed G-2 on 17 November 1911, and launched on 10 January 1912, sponsored by Ms. Marjorie F. Miller. G-2 was towed to the New York Navy Yard after the termination of the Lake contract on 7 November 1913, where she was completed, and commission on 1 December 1913.
Departing New York under tow of submarine tender Ozark, ex-monitor Arkansas, the submersible torpedo boat arrived at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, on 28 February 1914. Attached to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, G-2 spent the next five months conducting dive training and engineering exercises with G-1 in Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. During these trials the boat made six submerged runs to a maximum depth of 37 ft (11 m). Her White & Middleton gasoline engine proved troublesome and after the port armature shaft failed on 31 March, the boat was towed to New York for repairs. While there, financial considerations led to G-2 being put in reserve commission on 15 June 1914.
G-2 was placed in full commission at New York, on 6 February 1915. Attached to Division Three, Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, the boat joined G-1, tender Fulton and tug Sonoma, for a cruise to Norfolk, Virginia, on 25 March. Arriving there two days later, the submersible conducted maneuvers in Hampton Roads before proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, in April, arriving there on 17 April. Following a short yard period for repairs, the division proceeded back to New York, mooring alongside the 135th Street pier on 9 May.
On 18 May, G-2 joined other warships and passed in review before President Woodrow Wilson, who looked on from the yacht Mayflower. The boat then sailed to Nantucket, Massachusetts, to participate in a war problem off Block Island, before unloading her torpedoes at Newport, on 25 May. Ordered back to New York for an overhaul, the submersible again transited the familiar waters of Long Island Sound, before arriving at the mouth of the East River, on 22 June. While standing down the river with G-4, the two boats collided with submarine K-2, in an unusual three-boat accident. Fortunately, none of the boats suffered any damage. G-2 entered the Navy Yard there for an extended overhaul later that day.
Escorted to Provincetown, Massachusetts, by Ozark and tug Iwana, G-2 commenced final acceptance trials from 1–10 December. Following those successful evolutions, during which the Trial Board noted numerous items requiring modernization, the boat moved back to New York for an overhaul, on 14 January 1916. Six months later, G-2 shifted to the Lake Torpedo Boat Company yard for completion, receiving new diving rudder gear, hydroplanes, electrical wiring, and a new crankshaft. This yard work required extensive alterations and the boat did not return to service until convoyed to New London, Connecticut, by Sunbeam II, on 28 June 1917.
On 21 August, G-2 sailed to Boston, Massachusetts, via the Cape Cod Canal, to operate with the destroyer Aylwin, submarine chaser SC-6, and steam yacht Margaret. There the boat helped a Navy Experimental Board, embarked in Margaret, to carry out various sound detector tests in nearby waters. The submarine also conducted practice approaches and served as an instruction platform for officer and enlisted submarine students.
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