USS G-3
USS G-3, ex-Turbot, starboard side looking aft, at the Lake Torpedo Boat Company shipyard, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 9 December 1915 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Turbot |
| Namesake | The turbot |
| Builder | Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Cost | $529,832.47 (hull and machinery) |
| Laid down | 30 March 1911 |
| Launched | 27 December 1913 |
| Commissioned | 22 March 1915 |
| Decommissioned | 5 May 1921 |
| Renamed | G-3 (Submarine No.31), 17 November 1911 |
| Stricken | 19 April 1922 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 19 April 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | G-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 161 ft (49 m) |
| Beam | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 10 in (3.91 m) |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) on surface |
| Test depth | 200 ft (61 m) |
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| Armament | 6 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes, (2 internal in the bow, 2 external in bow, 2 external stern, 10 torpedoes |
USS Turbot/G-3 (SS-31), also known as "Submarine No. 31", was a G-class submarine of the United States Navy (USN). She was the first ship of the Navy to be named for the turbot, a large, brown and white flatfish, valued as a food, though she was renamed G-3 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. Unlike the other three boats of the G-class, Turbot had diesel engines.