USS O-5 (SS-66)

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	8 December 1916
Launched:	11 November 1917
Commissioned:	8 June 1918
Fate:	sunk by a fruit ship
Stricken:	28 April 1924
General Characteristics
Displacement:	520.6 tons surfaced, 629 tons submerged
Length:	172 feet 4 inches
Beam:	18 feet
Draft:	14 feet 5 inches
Speed:	14 knots surfaced, 10.5 knots submerged
Complement:	29 officers and men
Armament:	one three-inch/50-caliber gun, four 18-inch torpedo tubes

USS O-5 (SS-66) was an O-class submarine. Her keel was laid down on 8 December 1916 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 11 November 1917, and commissioned 8 June 1918 with Lieutenant G.A. Trever in command.

During the final months of World War I, O-5 operated along the Atlantic coast and patrolled from Cape Cod to Key West, Florida. She departed Newport, Rhode Island, on 3 November with a 20-sub contingent bound for European waters; however, hostilities had ceased before the vessels reached the Azores.

After the Armistice, O-5 operated out of the Submarine School at New London, Connecticut, until 1923. O-5 then sailed to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, for a brief tour. On 28 October 1923, as O-5 entered Limon Bay, preparatory to transiting the Panama Canal, she was rammed by United Fruit steamer Abangarez and sank in less than a minute, with the loss of three men.

Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 April 1924, she was sold as a hulk to R.K. Morris, Balboa, Canal Zone, on 12 December 1924.

References

This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.