USS H-1

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USS H-1
History
United States
NameUSS H-1
BuilderUnion Iron Works, San Francisco, California
Laid down22 March 1911, as Seawolf
Launched6 May 1913
Commissioned1 December 1913
RenamedH-1, 17 November 1911
Stricken12 April 1920
Fate
  • Run aground, 12 March 1920
  • Lost during salvage, 24 March 1920
General characteristics
TypeH-class submarine
Displacement
  • 358 long tons (364 t) surfaced
  • 467 long tons (474 t) submerged
Length150 ft 4 in (45.82 m)
Beam15 ft 10 in (4.83 m)
Draft12 ft 5 in (3.78 m)
Installed power
  • 950 hp (710 kW) (diesel engines)
  • 600 hp (450 kW) (electric motors)
Propulsion
Speed
  • 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) surfaced
  • 10.5 kn (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) submerged
Test depth200 ft (61 m)
Complement25 officers and men
Armament4 ×
18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (8 × torpedoes
)

USS H-1 (SS-28), the

seawolf
.

Seawolf was laid down by the

Mare Island Navy Yard
on 1 December 1913.

Service history

The new submarine was attached to Torpedo

Los Angeles, California to lower British Columbia, often in company with her sister ships H-2 and sometimes H-3
.

Sailing from San Pedro, California on 17 October 1917, she reached New London, Connecticut on 8 November. For the remainder of World War I, she was based there and patrolled Long Island Sound, frequently with officer students from the submarine school on board.

H-1 and H-2 sailed for San Pedro, California on 6 January 1920, transiting the

Baja California Peninsula, she ran aground on a shoal off Magdalena Bay
.

Four men – including the commanding officer died trying to reach shore. The diesel freighter

California & Mexico Steamship Company (also this line's inaugural voyage), tried to pull the submarine into deep water, and then carried 22 survivors to San Pedro where they arrived on March 18.[1] Vestal pulled H-1 off the rocks in the morning of 24 March, but in only 45 minutes, the submarine sank in some 50 ft (15 m) of water. Further salvage effort was abandoned. Her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register
on 12 April, and she was sold for scrap in June 1920, but never recovered.

In 2019, her wreck was identified south of Baja California.[2][3]

H-1 and H-2 in Coos Bay, Oregon.

References

  • Hendren, Richard H., The History of the H-class Submarines and Archeology of the Submarine H-1 (Ex Seawolf) (1913-1920), December 2021, [1]

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

  1. ^ "Steamer Mazatlan Arrives in Port". Riverside Daily Press. 18 March 1920. p. 4.
  2. ^ "Hallan submarino de la Primera Guerra Mundial en las costas de México" [First World War submarine found off the coast of Mexico], CNN en Espanol (in Spanish), September 5, 2019, retrieved September 5, 2019
  3. ^ Hendren, pp. 235

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