High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS O-8 (SS-69), an O-class submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on 27 February 1917 by Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 31 December 1917 sponsored by Mrs. Alice C. Burg, and commissioned on 11 July 1918 with Lieutenant Commander R.A. Burg in command.