USS C-2

Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	4 March 1908
Launched:	8 April 1909
Commissioned:	23 November 1909
Decommissioned:	23 December 1919
Stricken:	23 December 1919
Fate:	sold for scrap 13 April 1920
General Characteristics
Displacement:	238 tons
Length:	105 feet 4 inches
Beam:	13 feet 11 inches
Draft:	10 feet
Propulsion:
Speed:	10 knots
Range:
Complement:	15 officers and men
Armament:	two 18-inch torpedo tubes
Motto:

USS C-2 (SS-13) was a C-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from Electric Boat Company, as Stingray, making her the first ship of the United States Navy named for the stingray, a large ray with a whiplike tail and sharp spines capable of inflicting severe wounds. Stingray was launched on 8 April 1909 sponsored by Miss E. Stevens, and commissioned on 23 November 1909, Ensign E. B. Armstrong in command. She was renamed C-2 on 17 November 1911.

Stingray, assigned to the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet and later the Atlantic Submarine Flotilla, cruised East Coast waters until 20 May 1913, when she cleared Norfolk, Virginia, for six months of operations from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In December she reported at Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, and began an operating schedule of torpedo practice, exploration of anchorages, and harbor defense duty at ports of the Canal Zone. During the latter part of World War I, C-2 patrolled the Florida coast. The submarine was placed in ordinary at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 22 August 1919, and was decommissioned there 23 December 1919. She was sold 13 April 1920.

See USS Stingray for other ships of the same name.

References

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

External links

• history.navy.mil: USS C-2
• navsource.org: USS Stingray
• hazegray.org: USS Stingray