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O-15 (SS-76)

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Xray - Sierra
O-11 Class Submarine: Laid down, 21 September 1916, at California Shipbuilding Co., Long Beach, CA.; Launched, 12 February 1918; Completed at Mare Island Navy Yard; Commissioned, USS O-15, 27 August 1918; Designated (SS-76), 17 July 1920; Decommissioned, 11 June 1924, at Philadelphia, PA.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia; Struck from the Naval Register, 9 May 1930; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 30 July 1930.
Partial data submitted by Yves Hubert.

Specifications: Displacement, surfaced: 491 t., submerged: 566 t.; Length 175'; Beam 16' 7"; Draft 13' 11"; Speed, surfaced 14 kts, submerged 11 kts; Operational Depth Limit 200 ft; Complement 2 Officers 27 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes, eight torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, Busch Sulzer Brothers Diesel Engine Co., diesels, 1,000 hp, Fuel Capacity, 18,588 gal.; Diehl Manufacture Co. electric motors, 800 hp, Battery Cells 120, single propeller.
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O-15248k The unfinished O-15 (SS-76), is shown at California Ship Building Company in Long Beach on 30 March 1918. She was towed to Mare Island by the tug Unalga for completion. USN photo courtesy of Darryl L. Baker.
O-1572k O-15 (SS-76) in 1918, probably on patrol off the Atlantic coast.USN photo.
O-279kO-2 (SS-63) & O-15 (SS-76), alongside Rainbow (AS-7), circa 1919. An 18-inch torpedo is being lowered down O-15's forward hatch. Note the retracted 3"/23 gun just forward of 0-2's fairwater, and the "SC-Tube" hydrophone on O-15's foredeck. USN photo NH 44545, courtesy of USNHC.
O-15157k Crew on deck of the O-15 (SS-76) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 28 June 1919, "Peace Day". It looks like the boats is heading out for operations. The men forward of the Conn look to be closing the torpedo loading hatch and the men forward of them seem to be placing mooring lines in a deck locker. On the bow S1C George V. Peterson, (a cook stiker) appears to be coiling a heavie." USN photo # 19-N-15422, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
Text info courtesy of Ric Hedman.
K-1 266k K-1 (SS-32) with other ships of the Atlantic Fleet. The location is Key West, Fla. The boat in the foreground is thought to be the O-15 (SS-76). USN photo courtesy of STSCS(SS) Robert Carlin.
Photo i.d. & text courtesy of Ric Hedman.
Coco Solo1.66kUS Sub Base, Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone: 26 September 1922.
France Field is in the background.
One of the Henry Ford built Eagle class patrol boats is in the lower left corner of the basin.
Identifiable submarines are not clear enough for positive ID’s, but all the 6 Lake Torpedo Boat Co. O-class boats: O-11 (SS-72), O-12 (SS-73), O-13 (SS-74), O-14 (SS-75), O-15 (SS-76) & O-16 (SS-77) were assigned there for the bulk of their active service before being scrapped in 1930.		Photo i.d. courtesy of Ric Hedman & David Johnston.
Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air Forces, ca. 1902 - 1964
Series: "Airscapes" of American and Foreign Areas, 1917 - 1964
File Unit: Panama Canal Zone - Coco Solo
Local Identifier: 18-AA-108-33
National Archives Identifier: 68147899
Photo courtesy of catalog.archives.gov
SS 73 421k Three O boats docked from left to right in the 1920's. O-15 (SS-76) might be on the left, the middle boat is O-13 (SS-74), & O-16 (SS-77) Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston
Photo courtesy Tommy Trampp.
O-11 through O-16 238k From inboard to outboard: O-11 (SS-72), O-13 (SS-74), O-14 (SS-75) , O-15 (SS-76), O-16 (SS-77), and O-12 (SS-73), at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard, circa 1918-24. USN photo # 80-G-1024950, from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), courtesy of Daniel Dunham.
O-11 through O-16 81k O boats possibly in Phila. PA circa 1924:
From inboard to outboard: unidentified O boat, [probably O-13 (SS-74) or O-15 (SS-76)] O-11 (SS-72), O-12 (SS-73), O-16 (SS-77) & O-14 (SS-75). 		USN photo submitted by Charles Worcester.
O-16
0807700		674kPhiladelphia in the late 1920’s.
From left to right: Two K-class: (No definite i.d. which ones of the following 8 ): K-1 (SS-32), K-2 (SS-33), K-3 (SS-34), K-4 (SS-35), K-5 (SS-36), K-6 (SS-37), K-7 (SS-38), K-8 (SS-39).
Four EB design L-class (No definite i.d. which ones of the following 4 ): L-2 (SS-41), L-3 (SS-42), L-9 (SS-49) & L-11 (SS-51).
Two Lake design O-class (No definite i.d. which ones of the first 4): O-11 (SS-72), O-13 (SS-74), O-14 (SS-75), O-15 (SS-76 ), with the last boat being O-16 (SS-77) on far right.
All boats are in various states of disrepair, and all would be disposed of by scrapping by the summer of 1930 in accordance with the London Naval Treaty. 		Photo courtesy of David Wright.
Text i.d. via David Johnston.
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