USS C-2
USS Stingray/C-2 , also known as "Submarine No. 13", was one of five C-class submarines built for the United States Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the first boat in the USN named for the stingray.
Design
The C-class submarines were enlarged versions of the preceding B class; they were the first American submarines with two propeller shafts. They had a length of overall, a beam of and a mean draft of. They displaced on the surface and submerged. They had a diving depth of. The C-class boats had a crew of 1 officer and 14 enlisted men.For surface running, they were powered by two Craig gasoline engines, each driving one propeller shaft. When submerged each propeller was driven by a electric motor. They could reach on the surface and underwater. On the surface, the boats had a range of at and at submerged.
The boats were armed with two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes in the bow. They carried two reloads, for a total of four torpedoes.
Construction and career
Stingray was laid down, on 4 March 1908, by Fore River Shipbuilding Company, in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from Electric Boat Company. She was launched on 8 April 1909, sponsored by Ms. Elizabeth Stevens, and commissioned on 23 November 1909.She was renamed C-2, on 17 November 1911. C-2 was assigned to the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet, and later the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet, and cruised along the East Coast until 20 May 1913, when she cleared Norfolk, Virginia, for six months of operations from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In December, she reported at Cristóbal, Colón, Panama, and began an operating schedule of torpedo practice, exploration of anchorages, and harbor defense duty at ports of the Panama Canal Zone. During the latter part of World War I, C-2 patrolled the Florida coast.