USS M-1
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Class overview | |
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Name | M class |
Builders |
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Operators | United States Navy |
Preceded by | L class |
Succeeded by | AA-1 class |
Built | 1914 |
In service | 1915-1922 |
In commission | 1918–1922 |
History | |
United States | |
Name | USS M-1 |
Builder | |
Laid down | 2 July 1914 |
Launched | 14 September 1915 |
Commissioned | 16 February 1918 |
Decommissioned | 15 March 1922 |
Stricken | 16 March 1922 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 25 September 1922 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 197 ft (60 m) |
Beam | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Draft | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed |
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Range | 2,750 nmi (5,090 km) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) (surfaced) |
Test depth | 150 ft (46 m) |
Complement | 2 officers, 26 enlisted |
Armament |
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Notes | Followed by AA-1-class submarines |
USS M-1 (SS-47) was a unique submarine of the United States Navy. Although built as a fully operational boat, M-1 was built with a radically different double-hulled design.[2] This was in marked contrast to Simon Lake's and Electric Boat's single-hulled concepts. Ultimately shown to be unsuccessful, no other submarines of this class were built, although future advances in construction and metallurgy science made the double hull design a standard one for the USN.[3]