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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

American submarine USS H-8 (1918) in 1923

Launched in 1918, completed in  1918, displacement 357 (surfaced)-454 (submerged) tons, horsepower 480 (submerged)-600 (surfaced) hp, oil-fired internal combustion machinery (surfaced)-electric machinery (submerged) and an armament of 4 torpedo tubes for which she carried with her 8 torpedoes. Just to be used for coastal defence tasks.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.