Displacement 390
(surfaced)-530 (submerged) tons, building allowed in 1911, first material
ordered after 3 months, keel laid down after 7,5 months, taken over by the
government on 29 October 1914 after 26 months. Contracted building time 26
months, (1)
Note
1. Laid down at the shipyard
of Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California, USA as the USS Orca, launched
on 14 March 1914 and commissioned on 30 October 1914.
Source
Marineblad 1915/1916
no. 6. The article was mainly based on a report of the Secretary of Navy dated
16 October 1915 over the year ending on 30 June 1915.
