USS R-10
R-1-class submarine
Service
- as R-1020 August 1919 — 14 September 19452,193 days of the war
- Name
- USS R-10
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-87
- Builder
- Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts
- Ordered
- 29 August 1916
- Laid down
- 21 March 1918
- Launched
- 28 June 1919
- Commissioned
- 20 August 1919
- Decommissioned
- 14 September 1945
- Struck
- 18 June 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 22 January 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 574 long tons (583 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 685 long tons (696 t)
- Length
- 56.69 m (186 ft)
- Beam
- 5.49 m (18 ft)
- Draught
- 4.57 m (15 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,700 nmi (8,704 km)
- Complement
- 29
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
USS R-10 was a R-1-class submarine of the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-87. Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts laid her keel on 21 March 1918. Launched on 28 June 1919, she entered service on 20 August 1919.
The boat displaced 574 long tons surfaced and 685 long tons submerged. She measured 56.7 m (186 ft) long with a beam of 5.5 m (18 ft). Her designed speed was 12.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 29.
Her main battery was one 76 mm (3 in) guns. Her machinery developed 880 bhp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 14 September 1945. She was struck from the register on 18 June 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 22 January 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × NELSECO 6-EB-14 diesel engines
- 2 × Electro-Dynamic Company electric motors
- 2 × 60-cell batteries
- 2 × Propellers
- Power
- 880 bhp diesel
- 934 hp electric
- Armament
- 4 × 21 in torpedo tubes (8 torpedoes)
- 1 × 3 in/50-caliber deck gun
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS R-10 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Albert K. Murray — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08087.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons