USS S-16
24°25.207′N 82°02.393′W / 24.420117°N 82.039883°W
 USS S-16
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS S-16 |
| Builder | Lake Torpedo Boat Company |
| Laid down | 19 March 1918 |
| Launched | 23 December 1919 |
| Commissioned | 17 December 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 22 May 1935 |
| Recommissioned | 2 December 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 4 October 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk as target 3 April 1945 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | S-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 231 ft (70 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft 10 in (6.65 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m) |
| Speed |
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| Complement | 38 officers and men |
| Armament | 1 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
USS S-16 (SS-121) was a second-group (S-3 or "Government")
S-class submarine of the United States Navy
.
Construction and commissioning
S-16′s
laid down on 19 March 1918 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was launched on 23 December 1919 sponsored by Mrs. Archibald W. McNeil, and commissioned
on 17 December 1920.
Service history
1921–1935
Departing from
, on 1 December 1921.S-16 departed Cavite on 11 October 1922, visited
Mare Island, California
, on 30 December 1924.
S-16 remained at Mare Island in 1925 and 1926, and operated along the
decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, on 22 May 1935.
1940–1944
S-16 was recommissioned on 2 December 1940. Following voyages to
Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands from December 1941 (during which the United States entered World War II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December) to March 1942, then in the Panama Canal area from April to August 1942. On 13 July 1942, she was on the surface in the Caribbean Sea off Panama when she suffered damage from bombs accidentally dropped near her by United States Army Air Forces planes attacking the German U-boat U-153; the damage prevented her from diving, and she proceeded to port on the surface.[1] S-16 was based at New London from September 1942 to June 1944, with operations at Casco Bay, Maine
.
Decommissioning and disposal
S-16 was decommissioned on 4 October 1944 and struck from the
Key West, Florida
, on 3 April 1945.
Wreck
S-16′s
hull, allowing little coral growth and making wreck diving difficult to impossible.[3] The wreck is accessible through large hatches both forward and aft of the conning tower.[2] Both steel screws are covered by invertebrate growth.[2]
In literature
A fictional USS S-16 appears in
Edward L. Beach, Jr.'s 1955 novel Run Silent, Run Deep. In the novel, the fictional S-16 is taken out of decommissioned status, recommissioned and prepared for war by the charcaters in the story, and then turned over to the Polish Navy
.
References
Citations
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- ^ Hinman & Campbell, p. 198.
- ^ ISBN 0-9743036-0-7. Archived from the originalon 2009-02-19.
- ^ a b Rozzi, James (2008). "S-16 WW-I U.S. Submarine" (PDF). Advanced Diver Magazine Ezine (1, reprinted from ADM issue 3): 90–92. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
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.
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