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USS L-2
USS L-2 (SS-41), also known as "Submarine No. 41", was an L-class submarine of the United States Navy. She and her sister boats worked on submarine tactics in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and East Coast, prior to sailing to the Azores, and later stationed in Ireland, during WWI.
The L-class boats designed by Electric Boat (L-1 to L-4 and L-9 to L-11) were built to slightly different specifications from the other L boats, which were designed by Lake Torpedo Boat, and are sometimes considered a separate class. The Electric Boat submarines had a length of 168 ft 6 in (51.4 m) overall, a beam of 17 ft 5 in (5.3 m) and a mean draft of 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m). They displaced 450 long tons (460 t) on the surface and 548 long tons (557 t) submerged. The L-class submarines had a crew of 28 officers and enlisted men. They had a diving depth of 200 feet (61.0 m).
For surface running, the Electric Boat submarines were powered by two 450-brake-horsepower (336 kW) diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a 170-horsepower (127 kW) electric motor. They could reach 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) on the surface and 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) underwater. On the surface, the boats had a range of 5,150 nmi (9,540 km; 5,930 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) and 150 nmi (280 km; 170 mi) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged.
The boats were armed with four 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried four reloads, for a total of eight torpedoes. The Electric Boat submarines were initially not fitted with a deck gun; a single 3 in (76 mm)/23 caliber on a disappearing mount was added during the war.
L-2's keel was laid down on 19 March 1914, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 11 February 1915, sponsored by Mrs. Russel Gray, and commissioned on 29 September 1916.
Upon being commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, on 29 September 1916, L-2 reported for duty with Division Five, Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, on 2 October 1916. She continued fitting out and training out of Boston, until 26 October, after which she then proceeded to the Torpedo Station, at Newport, Rhode Island, to take on her torpedo outfit, from 26–28 October. She then continued her shakedown training in the waters off New England, and in Long Island Sound, until 30 November. After taking a sick sailor to Newport, she set a course southward on 1 December, and after a pause off the Delaware Breakwater, from 5–7 December, L-2 continued on to the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Key West, Florida, undergoing overhaul at the latter, before arriving at Havana, Cuba, for liberty on 30 December.
L-2 spent the New Year's holidays in port before departing Havana, on 2 January 1917, arriving at Key West, later that same day. She remained until 22 January, before departing for the Dry Tortugas, Florida, enroute to Pensacola, Florida. Reaching her destination on 28 January, she remained there until 17 February, when she shifted to Mobile, Alabama, from 17–21 February, before returning to Pensacola, on February 21.
While the submarine was at Pensacola, tensions with Imperial Germany increased with that nation's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare on 1 February. As a result, the annual Atlantic Fleet winter exercises in the waters off Cuba were cut short. After initial consolidation in Cuba's Guacanayabo Bay, the fleet relocated to the sheltered waters of lower Chesapeake Bay, by 31 March.
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USS L-2
USS L-2 (SS-41), also known as "Submarine No. 41", was an L-class submarine of the United States Navy. She and her sister boats worked on submarine tactics in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and East Coast, prior to sailing to the Azores, and later stationed in Ireland, during WWI.
The L-class boats designed by Electric Boat (L-1 to L-4 and L-9 to L-11) were built to slightly different specifications from the other L boats, which were designed by Lake Torpedo Boat, and are sometimes considered a separate class. The Electric Boat submarines had a length of 168 ft 6 in (51.4 m) overall, a beam of 17 ft 5 in (5.3 m) and a mean draft of 13 ft 7 in (4.1 m). They displaced 450 long tons (460 t) on the surface and 548 long tons (557 t) submerged. The L-class submarines had a crew of 28 officers and enlisted men. They had a diving depth of 200 feet (61.0 m).
For surface running, the Electric Boat submarines were powered by two 450-brake-horsepower (336 kW) diesel engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a 170-horsepower (127 kW) electric motor. They could reach 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) on the surface and 10.5 kn (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) underwater. On the surface, the boats had a range of 5,150 nmi (9,540 km; 5,930 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) and 150 nmi (280 km; 170 mi) at 5 kn (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) submerged.
The boats were armed with four 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried four reloads, for a total of eight torpedoes. The Electric Boat submarines were initially not fitted with a deck gun; a single 3 in (76 mm)/23 caliber on a disappearing mount was added during the war.
L-2's keel was laid down on 19 March 1914, by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 11 February 1915, sponsored by Mrs. Russel Gray, and commissioned on 29 September 1916.
Upon being commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, on 29 September 1916, L-2 reported for duty with Division Five, Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, on 2 October 1916. She continued fitting out and training out of Boston, until 26 October, after which she then proceeded to the Torpedo Station, at Newport, Rhode Island, to take on her torpedo outfit, from 26–28 October. She then continued her shakedown training in the waters off New England, and in Long Island Sound, until 30 November. After taking a sick sailor to Newport, she set a course southward on 1 December, and after a pause off the Delaware Breakwater, from 5–7 December, L-2 continued on to the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Key West, Florida, undergoing overhaul at the latter, before arriving at Havana, Cuba, for liberty on 30 December.
L-2 spent the New Year's holidays in port before departing Havana, on 2 January 1917, arriving at Key West, later that same day. She remained until 22 January, before departing for the Dry Tortugas, Florida, enroute to Pensacola, Florida. Reaching her destination on 28 January, she remained there until 17 February, when she shifted to Mobile, Alabama, from 17–21 February, before returning to Pensacola, on February 21.
While the submarine was at Pensacola, tensions with Imperial Germany increased with that nation's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare on 1 February. As a result, the annual Atlantic Fleet winter exercises in the waters off Cuba were cut short. After initial consolidation in Cuba's Guacanayabo Bay, the fleet relocated to the sheltered waters of lower Chesapeake Bay, by 31 March.
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