United States O class submarine
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The United States O class submarine was introduced shortly before the Armistice with Germany in 1918, and none saw combat, excluding O-4 and O-6. On 24 July 1918, a British steamer mistook O-4 and O-6 (SS-67) for German U-boats and fired on the submarines.
Some served as training vessels intermittently from the 1920s through the end of World War II. Several other boats were scrapped in accordance with the London Naval Treaty. Some were sunk in accidental collisions with other ships. The survivors were eventually sold for scrap.
The later O-boats (O-11 through O-16) were designed by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company to different specifications from the earlier ones designed by Electric Boat. They performed much less well, and are sometimes considered a separate class.
| O-class submarine |
| Designed by Electric Boat |
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O-1 | O-2 | O-3 | O-4 | O-5 | O-6 | O-7 | O-8 | O-9 | O-10 | |
| Designed by Lake Torpedo Boat |
| List of submarines of the United States Navy List of submarine classes of the United States Navy |
