Cachalot
/ K-2 (SS-33)
S-33 (SS-138) was laid down on 14 June 1918 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California; lauched on 5 December 1918; sponsored on 18 April 1922, Lieutenant George P. Lamont in command.
Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 392 t., Submerged: 521 t.; Length 153' 7"; Beam 16' 8"; Draft 13' 1"; Speed, Surfaced 14 kts, Submerged 9.5 kts; Operating Depth, 200'; Complement, 2 Officers, 26 Enlisted; Armament, four 18" torpedo tubes, 8 torpedoes, one 3"/23 deck gun; Propulsion, diesel-electric, New London Ship & Engine Co., diesel engine, HP 950, Fuel Capacity, 18,126 gals., Electro Dynamic Co., electric motor, HP 680, Battery Cells, 120, single propeller.
November 1926, S-33 moved west to join her sister ships at Cavite. On 22 December, she arrived at that Luzon submarine base and, for the next five years, operated as a unit of the Asiatic Fleet. during the fall and winter months, local exercises and annual overhauls kept her in the Philippines. Each spring she deployed to the China coast for division and fleet exercises out of her summer base at Tsingtao.
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K-2 moored to the dock next to the tender USS Tonopah in the
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K-2 SS 33 (ex-Cachalot) |
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Starboard
view of the K-2 (SS-33) underway with crew on deck |
Portside
view of the K-2 (SS-33) underway with "zebra" camoflouge |
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