U.S.S. Orca (1914)

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U.S.S. Orca (1914)
Hull Number: SS-34
Builder: Union Iron Works[1]
Launched: 14 Mar, 1914[2]
Commissioned: 30 Oct, 1914
Decommissioned: 20 Feb, 1923
Broken up: 1931[3]

U.S.S. K-3 was originally to be named U.S.S. Orca but was renamed in late 1911 – one of eight Haddock Class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy.

She commissioned on 30 October, 1914 with Lieutenant F. T. Chew in command.

Service

In early 1916, K-3, K-4, K-7 and K-8 were based in Pearl Harbor, their crews living aboard U.S.S. Alert.[4]

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Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 128.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 128.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 128.
  4. Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. pp. 1553-4.
  5. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 44.
  6. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 42.
  7. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 52.
  8. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 42.
  9. Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 62-63.

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