USS G-2
1912 G-class submarine
USS Tuna/G-2 (SS-27), also known as "Submarine No. 27", was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). She was the first ship of the USN to be named for the tuna, a large, vigorous, spiny-finned fish highly esteemed for sport and food, though she was renamed G-2 prior to launching.
While the four G-boats were nominally all of a class, they differed enough in significant details that they are sometimes considered to be four unique boats, each in a class by herself.
Construction
Tuna's keel was laid down on 20 October 1909, by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was renamed G-2 on 17 November 1911, and launched on 10 January 1912, sponsored by Ms. Marjorie F. Miller. G-2 was towed to the New York Navy Yard after the termination of the Lake contract on 7 November 1913, where she was completed, and commission on 1 December 1913.
Service history
Departing New York under tow of submarine tender Ozark, ex-monitor Arkansas, the submersible torpedo boat arrived at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, on 28 February 1914. Attached to the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, G-2 spent the next five months conducting dive training and engineering exercises with G-1 in Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay.
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