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USS Plunger (SS-2)
Submarine of the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Plunger and USS A-1.
USS Plunger (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy. She was the lead boat of her class and was later renamed A-1 when she was designated an A-type submarine. She is not to be confused with the experimental submarine Plunger which was evaluated by the U.S. Navy from 1898 to 1900, but not accepted or commissioned.
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Name | USS Plunger |
Namesake | Plunger, a diver or daring gambler |
Builder | |
Laid down | 21 May 1901 |
Launched | 1 February 1902 |
Commissioned | 19 September 1903 |
Decommissioned | 3 November 1905 |
Recommissioned | 23 February 1907 |
Stricken | 24 February 1913 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 26 January 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Plunger-class submarine |
Displacement | 107 long tons (109 t) |
Length | 64 ft (20 m) |
Beam | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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Complement | 7 |
Armament | 1 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tube (five torpedoes[1]) |
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