USS S-16
S-3-class submarine
Service
- as S-1617 December 1920 — 4 October 19441,860 days of the war
- Name
- USS S-16
- Pennant / hull number
- SS-121
- Builder
- Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Laid down
- 19 March 1918
- Launched
- 23 December 1919
- Commissioned
- 17 December 1920
- Decommissioned
- 22 May 1935
- Recommissioned
- 2 December 1940
- Struck
- 13 November 1944
- Fate
- Sunk as a target, 3 April 1945 (1945)
- Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, surfaced
- 875 long tons (889 t)
- Displacement, submerged
- 1,088 long tons (1,105 t)
- Length
- 70.41 m (231 ft)
- Beam
- 6.4 m (21 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 15 knots (27.8 km/h, 17.3 mph)
- Complement
- 38
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
USS S-16 was a S-3-class submarine, operated by the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number SS-121. Lake Torpedo Boat Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut laid her keel on 19 March 1918. She entered service on 17 December 1920, having been launched on 23 December 1919.
The boat displaced 875 long tons surfaced and 1,088 long tons submerged. She measured 70.4 m (231 ft) long with a beam of 6.4 m (21 ft). Her designed speed was 15 knots, and she carried a complement of 38.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns. Her machinery developed 1,400 bhp.
She was in commission for 1,860 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 22 May 1935. She recommissioned on 2 December 1940. She was struck from the register on 13 November 1944.
She was expended as a target on 3 April 1945. The wreck survives.
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 × Busch-Sulzer 6M150 diesel engines
- 2 × Westinghouse Electric Corporation electric motors
- 2 × 60-cell batteries
- 2 × Propellers
- Power
- 1400 bhp diesel
- 1200 hp electric
- Armament
- 4 × Bow 21 in torpedo tubes (12 torpedoes)
- 1 × Stern 21-in torpedo tube (2 torpedoes)
- 1 × 4 in/50-caliber
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from USS S-16 on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: US Navy photo — US Navy Image taken from NavSource ( https://www.navsource.net/archives/08/08121.htm ) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons