USS R-16
R-1-class submarine
Service
- as R-165 August 1918 — 16 July 19452,145 days of the war
- Name
- USS R-16
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-93
- Builder
- Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California
- Ordered
- 29 August 1916
- Laid down
- 26 April 1917
- Launched
- 15 December 1917
- Commissioned
- 5 August 1918
- Decommissioned
- 12 May 1931
- Recommissioned
- 1 July 1940
- Struck
- 25 July 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 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-16 was a R-1-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-93. Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California laid her keel on 26 April 1917. She entered service on 5 August 1918, having been launched on 15 December 1917.
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 2,145 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 12 May 1931. She recommissioned on 1 July 1940. She was struck from the register on 25 July 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-16 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: U.S. Navy photograph — https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08093.htm — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons