USS R-18
USS R-18
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS R-18 |
Ordered | 29 August 1916 |
Builder | Union Iron Works, San Francisco, California |
Laid down | 16 June 1917 |
Launched | 8 January 1918 |
Commissioned | 11 September 1918 |
Decommissioned | 13 May 1931 |
Recommissioned | 8 January 1941 |
Decommissioned | 19 September 1945 |
Stricken | 1 October 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Type | R class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 186 ft 2 in (56.74 m) |
Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
Propulsion | Diesel-electric |
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Complement | 29 officers and men |
Armament |
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USS R-18 (SS-95) was an
Construction and commissioning
R-18′s
Service history
1918–1931
Following shakedown, R-18 was assigned, briefly, to the Panama Canal Zone. At the end of 1918 she returned to California. She was at San Pedro, California, from January to March 1919, then underwent an overhaul at San Francisco. On 17 June 1919 she got underway for Hawaii and on 25 June 1919 she arrived there at Pearl Harbor. Based there for over a decade, she served with the United States Pacific Fleet, training personnel and testing new submarine equipment. On 17 July 1920 she was given the hull classification symbol SS-95.
R-18 departed Hawaii on 12 December 1930, transited the
1941–1946
Recommissioned 8 January 1941, R-18 was at
Originally patrolling from New London, she shifted to Bermuda in May 1942. On 30 May 1942, a U.S. Navy
Then assigned with other R-class submarines to training duties for the remainder of
In 1945, R-18 again began operations from New London. During the summer of 1945 she made her last voyage to Florida and back and in September 1945 she headed for New Hampshire and inactivation. R-18 arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on 7 September 1945 and was decommissioned on 19 September 1945. Struck from the Naval Vessel Register in October 1945, she was sold for scrapping to the John J. Duane Company of Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1946.
References
Footnotes
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- ^ Hinman & Campbell, pp. 170–272.
Bibliography
- Hinman, Charles R., and Douglas E. Campbell. The Submarine Has No Friends: Friendly Fire Incidents Involving U.S. Submarines During World War II. Syneca Research Group, Inc., 2019. ISBN 978-0-359-76906-3.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS R-18 at NavSource Naval History